Why Believe? by John Cottingham
Religious belief, or its lack, is something that touches our integrity very deeply. It goes to the heart of who we are, what we take ourselves to be doing with our lives, and how we locate ourselves in relation to others. Much philosophy tackles belief in God as if it depended entirely on abstract intellectual argument, but John Cottingham's carefully reasoned yet impassioned account shows how the religious outlook connects with our deepest human longings, how it links up with our moral and aesthetic experience, how it is integrally involved in the quest for self-understanding, and how it is not after all in conflict with a scientific understanding of the world. Rigorously argued yet maximally accessible, this book cuts through the sterility of much modern debate and offers a new and exciting perspective on the conflict between secularism and spirituality.
Professor Cottingham has the Chair in Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. This was Anthony Flew's Chair previously.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780826496362 |
| ISBN 10 | 0826496369 |
| Title | Why Believe? |
| Author | John Cottingham |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2009-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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