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The Naturalness of Belief - New Essays on Theism's Rationality (Paperback)
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Despite its name, "naturalism" as a world-view turns out to be
rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of
materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists
opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values,
intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency,
and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more
like theism. As many strict naturalists recognize, broad naturalism
must borrow from the metaphysical resources of a theistic
world-view, in which such features are very natural, common
sensical, and quite "at home" in a theistic framework. The
Naturalness of Belief begins with a naturalistic philosopher's own
perspective of naturalism and naturalness. The remaining chapters
take a multifaceted approach in showing theism's naturalness and
greater explanatory power. They examine not only rational reasons
for theism's ability to account for consciousness, intentionality,
beauty, human dignity, free will, rationality, and knowledge; they
also look at common sensical, existential, psychological, and
cultural reasons-in addition to the insights of the cognitive
science of religion.
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