{"id":638,"date":"2012-02-02T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=638"},"modified":"2020-06-23T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:07:57","slug":"religion-for-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/religion-for-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion for Atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alain de Botton\/ Simon Glendinning<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_publiclecturesandevents\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20120202_1830_religionForAtheists.mp3\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday 2 February 2012, 6.30-8.00pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaindebotton.com\/\"><strong>Alain de Botton<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0author of non-fiction essays on themes ranging from love and travel to architecture and philosophy. He\u00a0founded\u00a0<em>The School of Life<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theschooloflife.com\/\"><strong>www.theschooloflife.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Living Architecture<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.living-architecture.co.uk\/\"><strong>www.living-architecture.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/staff\/academicStaff\/glendinning\/home.aspx\"><strong>Simon Glendinning<\/strong><\/a>, Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE and Director of the Forum for European Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to remain a committed atheist but nevertheless benefit from the wisdom of religion? Marking the publication of his new book,\u00a0<em>Religion for Atheists,<\/em>\u00a0<strong>Alain de Botton<\/strong>\u00a0argued that religion still has some very important things to teach the secular world even if we reject its supernatural claims. He proposed that we look to religions for insights into how we might live in and arrange our societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain de Botton\/ Simon Glendinning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[19,62],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ethics","tag-philosophy-of-religion"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-ai","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12182,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/12182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}