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Purpose in the Universe
Author | : Tim Mulgan |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191066573 |
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Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism that it is at least as strong as the case for either theism or atheism. The book borrows traditional theist arguments to defend a cosmic purpose. These include cosmological, teleological, ontological, meta-ethical, and mystical arguments. It then borrows traditional atheist arguments to reject a human-centred purpose. These include arguments based on evil, diversity, and the scale of the universe. Mulgan also highlights connections between morality and metaphysics, arguing that evaluative premises play a crucial and underappreciated role in metaphysical debates about the existence of God, and Ananthropocentric Purposivism mutually supports an austere consequentialist morality based on objective values. He concludes that, by drawing on a range of secular and religious ethical traditions, a non-human-centred cosmic purpose can ground a distinctive human morality. Our moral practices, our view of the moral universe, and our moral theory are all transformed if we shift from the familiar choice between a universe without meaning and a universe where humans matter to the less self-aggrandising thought that, while it is about something, the universe is not about us.
Giving the Devil His Due
Author | : Michael Shermer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020-04-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781108489782 |
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Explores how free speech and open inquiry are integral to science, politics, and society for the survival and progress of our species.
The Purpose guided Universe
Author | : Bernard Haisch |
Publsiher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781601631220 |
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Haisch contends that there is a purpose and an underlying intelligence behind the universe, one that is consistent with science, especially the Big Bang and evolution.
Finding Purpose in a Godless World
Author | : Ralph Lewis, MD |
Publsiher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781633883864 |
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A psychiatrist presents a compelling argument for how human purpose and caring emerged in a spontaneous and unguided universe. Can there be purpose without God? This book is about how human purpose and caring, like consciousness and absolutely everything else in existence, could plausibly have emerged and evolved unguided, bottom-up, in a spontaneous universe. A random world--which according to all the scientific evidence and despite our intuitions is the actual world we live in--is too often misconstrued as nihilistic, demotivating, or devoid of morality and meaning. Drawing on years of wide-ranging, intensive clinical experience as a psychiatrist, and his own family experience with cancer, Dr. Lewis helps readers understand how people cope with random adversity without relying on supernatural belief. In fact, as he explains, although coming to terms with randomness is often frightening, it can be liberating and empowering too. Written for those who desire a scientifically sound yet humanistic view of the world, Lewis's book examines science's inroads into the big questions that occupy religion and philosophy. He shows how our sense of purpose and meaning is entangled with mistaken intuitions that events in our lives happen for some intended cosmic reason and that the universe itself has inherent purpose. Dispelling this illusion, and integrating the findings of numerous scientific fields, he shows how not only the universe, life, and consciousness but also purpose, morality, and meaning could, in fact, have emerged and evolved spontaneously and unguided. There is persuasive evidence that these qualities evolved naturally and without mystery, biologically and culturally, in humans as conscious, goal-directed social animals. While acknowledging the social and psychological value of progressive forms of religion, the author respectfully critiques even the most sophisticated theistic arguments for a purposeful universe. Instead, he offers an evidence-based, realistic yet optimistic and empathetic perspective. This book will help people to see the scientific worldview of an unguided, spontaneous universe as awe-inspiring and foundational to building a more compassionate society.
The Universe Within Us
Author | : Jane E. Harper |
Publsiher | : Baha'i Publishing Trust |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1931847584 |
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A provocative look at the purpose of life through a mixture of religion, science and personal experience
Nature s Destiny
Author | : Michael Denton |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2002-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780743237628 |
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A leading evolutionary thinker, biologist, and medical researcher asks the question: "Could life elsewhere be substantially different from life on Earth?"--and builds a step-by-step argument for human inevitability. 65 illustrations and photos.
Purpose in the Universe
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Author | : Tim Mulgan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:931686808 |
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Purpose in the Universe
Author | : Tim Mulgan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199646142 |
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Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan defends a third way. Ananthropocentric purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. He argues that non-human-centred cosmic purpose can ground a distinctive human morality.