In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and
women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is
God's place in it? What is death and what is immortality? Based on
the 2011 Einstein Lectures, Religion without God is inspired by
remarks Einstein made that if religion consists of awe toward
mysteries which "manifest themselves in the highest wisdom and the
most radiant beauty, and which our dull faculties can comprehend
only in the most primitive forms," then, he, Einstein, was a
religious person. Dworkin joins Einstein's sense of cosmic mystery
and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of
mind, and immanent in the world. He rejects the metaphysics of
naturalism--that nothing is real except what can be studied by the
natural sciences. Belief in God is one manifestation of this deeper
worldview, but not the only one. The conviction that God
underwrites value presupposes a prior commitment to the independent
reality of that value--a commitment that is available to
nonbelievers as well. So theists share a commitment with some
atheists that is more fundamental than what divides them. Freedom
of religion should flow not from a respect for belief in God but
from the right to ethical independence. Dworkin hoped that this
short book would contribute to rational conversation and the
softening of religious fear and hatred. Religion without God is the
work of a humanist who recognized both the possibilities and
limitations of humanity.
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