Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Dworkin- 'Religion without God'



Dworkin's latest book, published posthumously:

'Religion without God'

is based on his 2011 'Einstein lectures' given at the University of Bern.
You can find links to reviews, an excerpt of the book, and video footage of his lectures here

From the publishers:
"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."

 


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