The Answers Lie Within Us: Towards a Science of the Human Spirit - Couverture rigide

Sinclair, Alistair

 
9781840145762: The Answers Lie Within Us: Towards a Science of the Human Spirit
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1840145765 ISBN 13 : 9781840145762
Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998

Synopsis

This book suggests that religion, in its usual sense, can be replaced by something better, that the human spirit or subjectivity can be the subject of scientific study and that lack of purpose or design in the universe is not a handicap but a positive opportunity for intelligent beings to make of the universe and its contents what they reasonably can. The book breaks new ground in suggesting a radical alternative to religion. It offers a scientific and humanist alternative to religion which appeals to people's critical faculties rather than emotions or intuitions. It also challenges current views of causation and the principle of sufficient reason by stressing the subjectivity of our reasoning powers and clarifying these in relation to an independent external reality. It develops and elaborates a notion of the 'noosphere' within a theoretical system, this enables the notion to assume a scientific importance which it currently lacks because it is treated as an isolated, eccentric and rather mystical idea.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alistair Sinclair, University of Glasgow, UK

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Éditeur
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1840145765
ISBN 13 
9781840145762
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
154
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Personne responsable
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