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Naturalism and Religion
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Naturalism and Religion Hardcover - 2001

by Kai Nielsen


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This elucidation and defense of naturalism argues that an uncompromising secular orientation is the best framework for the search for meaning and interprets religion in purely naturalistic terms. Part One seeks to demonstrate that religious symbols arise from facts about human beings and the societies in which they live, specifically our needs, fears, and aspirations. Part Two examines arguments for and against naturalism, including the defenses of naturalism by Sidney Hook, Ernest Nagel, Antony Flew, and critical reactions to their views. The forceful and rigorously analytical case made by Jean Hampton against naturalism is also examined, resulting in a clarification of the substantial and sound methodological grounds for naturalism and atheism. Part Three considers the strongest intellectual challenge to secularism and naturalism, namely that of Ludwig Wittgenstein and some of his followers - Norman Malcolm, D. Z. Phillips, Hilary Putnam, Rush Rhees, and Peter Winch.
Nielsen concludes that none of these critiques diminish the cogency and viability of naturalism as the most reasonable basis for viewing our world today.

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What I want most to achieve in Naturalism and Religion is to give a perspicuous articulation and soundly reasoned account of a thoroughly secular and as well a thoroughly humanist way of looking at things and of living in our world-our modern, or, if you will, post-modern world.

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  • Title Naturalism and Religion
  • Author Kai Nielsen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 508
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Prometheus Books, Bx-29
  • Date 2001-10-01
  • ISBN 9781573928533 / 1573928534
  • Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.39 x 1.69 in (23.67 x 16.23 x 4.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Atheism, Naturalism - Religious aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00045841
  • Dewey Decimal Code 211.6

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2002, Page 12
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