Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and the Desire to Be a God

Informationen zum Autor By Bruce N. Waller Klappentext This bookexamines a nonconscious and profoundly harmful desire that is almost universally denied: the desire to be a god. Afflicting believers and nonbelievers alike, the desire is manifested in religious myths and throughout the history of philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Apotheosis Aspiration Chapter Two: Promiscuous Teleology and Apotheosis Aspiration Chapter Three: The Self-Made Man Chapter Four: Human Uniqueness, Miraculous Will Power, and Rational Godliness Chapter Five: The System of Apotheosis Aspiration Chapter Six: Reductio ad Absurdum Defenses of the Apotheosis Aspiration System Chapter Seven: The Perils of Apotheosis Aspiration Chapter Eight: The Cure for Apotheosis Aspiration Bibliography Index About the Author

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• Authors: Bruce N. Waller
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793632647
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-264-7
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy