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9780230013414

Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Life

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    9780230013414

  • ISBN10:

    0230013414

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-01-23
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

If science has replaced God, is life necessarily meaningless? This book argues that the advances of science and the retreat of religion in secular society does not have to mean a life without spirituality.

Author Biography

MARK VERNON is a writer, broadcaster, blogger (www.philosophyandlife.com) and journalist. He published Business: The Key Concepts with Routledge in 2002 as well as chapters on philosophy in various academic books. He was a priest in the Church of England 1994-1996 and holds a PhD in Philosophy from Warwick University, UK. He is the author The Philosophy of Friendship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Socrates' Quest: The Beginning of Wisdom
Cosmologists and Darwinists: The Limits of Science
Visions of Reality: Science and Wonder
Bad Faith: Religion as Certainty
Christian Agnosticism: Learned Ignorance
Following Socrates: A Philosophical Way of Life
How to be an Agnostic
Further Reading and References
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Socrates' Quest: The Beginning of Wisdom
Cosmologists and Darwinists: The Limits of Science
Visions of Reality: Science and Wonder
Bad Faith: Religion as Certainty
Christian Agnosticism: Learned Ignorance
Following Socrates: A Philosophical Way of Life
How to be an Agnostic
Further Reading and References
Index
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