Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science

Name: Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science
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ISBN: 9780521609937

ISBN-10: 0521609933

ISBN-13: 9780521609937

Edition: 2006

Authors: John F. Haught

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Is nature all there is? John Haught examines this question and in doing so addresses a fundamental issue in the dialogue of science with religion. The belief that nature is all there is and that no overall purpose exists in the universe is known broadly as 'naturalism'. Naturalism, in this context, denies the existence of any realities distinct from the natural world and human culture. Since the rise of science in the modern world has had so much influence on naturalism's intellectual acceptance, the author focuses on 'scientific' naturalism and the way in which its defenders are now attempting to put a distance between contemporary thought and humanity's religious traditions. Haught seeks…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Is Nature Enough?



Religion



Intelligence



Life



Emergence



Purpose



Seeing



Cosmos



Morality



Suffering



Death



Anticipation


Index