Answers Lie Within Us
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A01=Alistair Sinclair
Advanced Beings
Advanced Entities
Anomalous Monism
Anthropic Principle
Author_Alistair Sinclair
Category=QDHR
Category=QRAB
causation theory
Chuang Tzu Book
Common Language
Common Sense Usage
Contemporary Society
Energy Resources
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Final Anthropic Principle
God Belief
Implicate Order
Intelligent Beings
Intelligent Species
Interim Analysis
Internal Mental Activity
Major Organic Unity
Modern Language
noology
noosphere studies
Normal Brain Activity
Oblique Intention
philosophy of mind
Rational Obligations
scientific humanism
scientific study of human consciousness
Self-referential Cycle
subjectivity research
Teilhard De Chardin
Universal Notions
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781840145762
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 17 Aug 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book suggests that religion, in its usual sense, can be replaced by something better, that the human spirit or subjectivity can be the subject of scientific study and that lack of purpose or design in the universe is not a handicap but a positive opportunity for intelligent beings to make of the universe and its contents what they reasonably can. The book breaks new ground in suggesting a radical alternative to religion. It offers a scientific and humanist alternative to religion which appeals to people’s critical faculties rather than emotions or intuitions. It also challenges current views of causation and the principle of sufficient reason by stressing the subjectivity of our reasoning powers and clarifying these in relation to an independent external reality. It develops and elaborates a notion of the ’noosphere’ within a theoretical system, this enables the notion to assume a scientific importance which it currently lacks because it is treated as an isolated, eccentric and rather mystical idea.
Alistair Sinclair, University of Glasgow, UK
