Thoughts on Religion and Morality
Author | : James Eddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Eddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Professor William J Wainwright |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1409476979 |
Religion and Morality addresses central issues arising from religion's relation to morality. Part I offers a sympathetic but critical appraisal of the claim that features of morality provide evidence for the truth of religious belief. Part II examines divine command theories, objections to them, and positive arguments in their support. Part III explores tensions between human morality, as ordinarily understood, and religious requirements by discussing such issues as the conflict between Buddhist and Christian pacifism and requirements of justice, whether 'virtue' without a love of God is really a vice, whether the God of the Abrahamic religions could require us to do something that seems clearly immoral, and the ambiguous relations between religious mysticism and moral behavior. Covering a broad range of topics, this book draws on both historical and contemporary literature, and explores afresh central issues of morality and religion offering new insights for students, academics and the general reader interested in philosophy and religion.
Author | : James Eddy |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2017-12-16 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780332958675 |
Excerpt from Thoughts on Religion and Morality: The Existence of God, His Character and Relations to Humanity: Religious Duties Growing Out of Human Relations With God: Morality and Our Relations With Each Other I dedicate this'little volume also to the charitable consider ation iof all moral and religious teachers, and to all thoughtful people throughout the world, feeling satisfaction in the hope that a few readers may find herein some kernels of truth to add to their own earnest and honest convictions in regard 'to our highest duties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Julian Young |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 2006-04-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107320879 |
In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsche's early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsche's published works, that his religious communitarianism in fact persists through all his writings. What follows, it is argued, is that the mature Nietzsche is neither an 'atheist', an 'individualist', nor an 'immoralist': he is a German philosopher belonging to a German tradition of conservative communitarianism - though to claim him as a proto-Nazi is radically mistaken. This important reassessment will be of interest to all Nietzsche scholars and to a wide range of readers in German philosophy.
Author | : Stephen T. Asma |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-05-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190469692 |
How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.
Author | : Daromir Rudnyckyj |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107186056 |
This book focuses on how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions.
Author | : James Eddy |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781358521188 |
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Author | : Phil Zuckerman |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1640094245 |
“A thoughtful perspective on humans' capacity for moral behavior.” —Kirkus Reviews “A comprehensive introduction to religious skepticism.” —Publishers Weekly In What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues that morality does not come from God. Rather, it comes from us: our brains, our evolutionary past, our ongoing cultural development, our social experiences, and our ability to reason, reflect, and be sensitive to the suffering of others. By deconstructing religious arguments for God–based morality and guiding readers through the premises and promises of secular morality, Zuckerman argues that the major challenges facing the world today—from global warming and growing inequality to religious support for unethical political policies to gun violence and terrorism—are best approached from a nonreligious ethical framework. In short, we need to look to our fellow humans and within ourselves for moral progress and ethical action. “In this brilliant, provocative, and timely book, Phil Zuckerman breaks down the myth that our morality comes from religion—compellingly making the case that when it comes to the biggest challenges we face today, a secular approach is the only truly moral one.” —Ali A. Rizvi, author of The Atheist Muslim
Author | : Harry J. Gensler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107052440 |
This book develops strong versions of divine command theory and natural law and defends the importance of God to morality.
Author | : John Cottingham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107019435 |
In this book, abstract intellectual argument meets ordinary human experience on matters such as the existence of God and the relation between religion and morality.