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Religion, Secularization and Political Thought
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in British political philosophy from Thomas Hobbes to J.S.... more...
On Human Freedom
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00In the author?s opinion there are three primary conceptions of human freedom - non-coercion, autonomy and indeterminism. He presents his thoughts to define, compare, distinguish and correlate these, not merely with regard to the freedom of the human will, but also and more generally with regard to freedom in human life and thought. The discussion... more...
Religion and Reality
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00This discussion of the search for religious truth addresses a universal view of religion that can be termed ?philosophical mysticism? from a rational basis of experience. Originally published in 1915, this is a classic of theological thinking that investigates the fundamental nature of religion and ?perfect? experience. more...
Stoic, Christian and Humanist
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00This book collects together four essays by the very well-known academic Gilbert Murray that were first presented between 1914 and 1939. The author seeks to present a statement of his profound belief in ethics and disbelief in revelational religions. The philosophy of this great thinker is accessibly written while it addresses deep questions of the... more...
The Reality of the Mind
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00Among the various approaches to the question of the nature of the mind (or soul), Augustine?s philosophical arguments for the existence of an incorporeal and spiritual substance in man and against materialism are here thoroughly examined on their merits as a source of insight for contemporary discussion. This book, originally published in 1986,... more...
Theism and Cosmology
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00Theism is one of the major types of metaphysics and cosmology is the general theory of the whole wide world. Must the world have an over-worldly source, or any source? Would "space" crumble unless God perpetually sustained it by his brooding omnipresence? Is all power, properly understood, divine power? These large questions, never out of date, are... more...
Science, Reason & Religion
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00Philosophy matters. This is the message of this highly original inquiry into the relationship between science and religion. It is only when we examine the intellectual presuppositions on which science and religion are based, with regard to such fundamentals as truth, objectivity, and realism, that we perceive the link between these two enterprises... more...
Deity and Morality: With Regard to the Naturalistic Fallacy
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00This book describes the "naturalistic fallacy", as attributed to Hume, that non-moral premises cannot logically entail a moral conclusion, and distinguishes it from the similarly named though subtly different fallacy identified by Moore in Principia Ethica by comparing and contrasting its presence in a range of ethical or moral systems. A review of... more...
Experience, Explanation and Faith
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00In this book Anthony O?Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the indeterminate ground of everything determinate. Drawing on... more...
Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00This study offers students of religion and philosophy introductory chapters concerning the concept of natural religion. It holds that we can?t engage in useful discussion about the present concept of religion without a knowledge of the philosophical history that has shaped that concept. This is discussed with reference to the notion of natural religion... more...









