Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism
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Author
Publication
1874 - Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
64,250 words, Guess
Page Count
257 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6551993M
- OCLC Control Number377330
- OCLC Control Number1275399121
- OCLC Control Number24920273
- OCLC Control Number7143925
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Numbercu31924029045826
- Library of Congress Control Number12036786
- LibraryThing1124433
Classifications
- LCCBL51 .M6 1874
Description
In these three essays, "Nature," "The Utility of Religion," and "Theism," published between 1850 and 1870, English social and political philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) gives his most sustained analysis of religious belief. Though not prepared to abandon the idea of an overall design in nature, Mill nonetheless argues that its violence and capriciousness militate against moral ends in nature's workings. Moreover, any designer of such a world as we experience it cannot be all powerful and all good, for nature is "too clumsily made and capriciously governed." However, since humankind, by and large, cannot, it seems, be deprived of religion, Mill espouses what he calls a "religion of humanity," whose concepts of justice, morality, and altruism are based on classical models and on the New Testament Sermon on the Mount rather than on the vindictive God of the Old Testament and the world-hating doctrines of St. Paul.
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