Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be
rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism
and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a
broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic
human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency, and the like.
But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more like theism. As
many strict naturalists recognize, broad naturalism must borrow from
the metaphysical resources of a theistic world-view, in which such
features are very natural, common sensical, and quite “at home” in
a theistic framework.
The Naturalness of Belief begins with a naturalistic philosopher’s
own perspective of naturalism and naturalness. The remaining chapters
take a multifaceted approach in showing theism’s naturalness and
greater explanatory power. They examine not only rational reasons for
theism’s ability to account for consciousness, intentionality,
beauty, human dignity, free will, rationality, and knowledge; they
also look at common sensical, existential, psychological, and cultural
reasons—in addition to the insights of the cognitive science of
religion.
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New Essays on Theism’s Rationality
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ISBN
9781498579919
Publisert
2019
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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