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Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and the Desire to Be a God (Hardcover)
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Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and the Desire to Be a God (Hardcover)
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Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and the Desire to be a God
explores the hidden corridors of the moral responsibility system to
discover why that system is so widely accepted and passionately
defended. The moral responsibility system has obvious charms: it
provides justification for our powerful strike-back motives,
transforms selfishness into the virtuous defense of our justly
deserved special benefits, draws a radical distinction between
humans and the other species we exploit, and protects our
nonconscious belief in a just world. Those charms notwithstanding,
the resilience and endurance of the moral responsibility system
indicates a hidden force that not only binds together the pieces of
the system but also motivates our stubborn devotion to that system.
That hidden force is a nonconscious desire to be a god: a desire
that afflicts both believers and atheists, and that is almost
universally denied (Nietzsche being a special exception). That
desire can be found throughout the history of philosophy, from
Aristotle to the present. It is also manifested in myths and a
variety of religious practices and teachings. The breadth, power
and harm of nonconscious "apotheosis aspiration" is the focus of
this study.
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