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Warren Buffett (born 1930): American investor; identified himself as agnostic in response to Warren Allen Smith, who had asked him whether he believed in God [85] Henry Dunant (1828–1910): Swiss businessman and social activist; founder of International Committee of the Red Cross ; in 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize , together ...
He edited the Secular Review from 1882; it was renamed Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review and closed in 1907. Ross championed agnosticism in opposition to the atheism of Charles Bradlaugh as an open-ended spiritual exploration. [59] In Why I am an Agnostic (c. 1889) he claims that agnosticism is "the very reverse of atheism". [60]
Agnostic atheism — or atheistic agnosticism — is a philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in the existence of any deity, and they are agnostic because they claim that the existence of a divine entity or entities is either unknowable in principle ...
Agnostic theism is the philosophical view that encompasses both theism and agnosticism. An agnostic theist believes in the existence of one or more gods, but regards the basis of this proposition as unknown or inherently unknowable. The agnostic theist may also or alternatively be agnostic regarding the properties of the god or gods that they ...
This category contains articles about people who either actively participated in the formulation of agnostic philosophy, or who openly espouse or practice it. Please limit additions to autoverifiable articles of serious significance.
Some agnostics, however, are not nontheists but rather agnostic theists. [4] Other related philosophical opinions about the existence of deities are ignosticism and skepticism. Because of the various definitions of the term God , a person could be an atheist in terms of certain conceptions of gods , while remaining agnostic in terms of others.
B. Burt Bacharach; John Bardeen; Joy Behar; Alexander Graham Bell; Tal Ben-Shahar; James Berardinelli; Irving Berlin; Emile Berliner; David Berlinski; Steve Berman
Janusz Korczak (agnostic [123] [124] [125]) – Polish-Jewish educator, children's author and pediatrician; after spending many years working as director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused freedom and remained with the orphans as they were sent to Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warsaw of 1942