Making God
A New Materialist Theory of the Person
2nd Edition
Published on 26. November 2015
444 pages
978-1-84540-877-0 (ISBN)
Description
The great teachers of the Axial Age - the Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, the Hebrew prophets right down to Jesus - began the making of the modern God. They re-made their inherited gods, creating a personal God in their own image. We may best celebrate them, not by clinging to their creation but by emulating their work. Developments in psychology mean that our view of persons is unlike theirs, and therefore the God they made can no longer serve as ours. We have to make our own. So argues Ann Long in this fascinating exploration of personhood, religion and moral value. The revolutionary decentring of the earth in the universe (Galileo) was followed by the revolutionary decentring of the human in the biosphere (Darwin). Now we are living through the even more revolutionary decentring of the 'I' in the world, a movement from that which is normal (having persons in society) to that which is moral (loving persons in community).
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Luton, Bedfordshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Windows
File size
2,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84540-877-0 (9781845408770)
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06/2007
Imprint Academic
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Preface
- Making God
- Part One
- Introduction
- God
- Science
- Part Two
- Observation
- Hyphothesis
- Experiment One
- (1) acts and omissions
- (2) appearance and reality
- (3) arts and sciences
- (4) autonomy and heteronomy
- (5) chance and necessity
- (6) egoism and altruism
- (7) ends and means
- (8) fact and value
- (9) freedom and determinism
- (10) good and evil
- (11) I and thou
- Experiment Two
- (12) identity and relationship
- (13) ideology and science
- (14) individual and society
- (15) individualism and anti-individualism
- (16) is and ought
- (17) justice and benevolence
- (18) knowledge and science
- (19) liberty and equality
- (20) master and slave
- (21) mind and body
- Experiment Three
- (22) natural and cultural
- (23) natural and moral
- (24) natural and social
- (25) needs and wants
- (26) objectivism and subjectivism
- (27) praise and blame
- (28) public and private
- (29) quantity and quality
- (30) realism and anti-realism
- (31) reason and emotion
- (32) reasons and causes
- (33) right and wrong
- (34) stories and explanations
- (35) time and space
- Theory
- Part Three
- Science Again
- God Again
- Conclusions
- Postscript
- Back Matter
- Appendices
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Bibliography
- Also Available
