Subject: Historical and philosophical studies

In Our Own Image

In Our Own Image

Posted by | Aug 1, 2020 | |

In Our Own Image is a work of comparative philosophical theology. It is a study of the roles anthropomorphism and apophaticism play in the construction of conceptual models of ultimate reality. Leading scholar Wesley J. Wildman considers whether we create our ideas of God. He offers a comparative analysis of three major classes of ultimacy models, paying particular attention to the way those classes are impacted by anthropomorphism while tracing their relative strengths and weaknesses.

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In Gods We Trust

In Gods We Trust

Posted by | Aug 1, 2020 | |

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.

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Immoderate Greatness

Immoderate Greatness

Posted by | Aug 1, 2020 | |

Immoderate Greatness explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure.

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Human Universe

Human Universe

Posted by | Jul 30, 2020 | |

Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller
‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ Guardian

Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?

Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live

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Human Accomplishment

Human Accomplishment

Posted by | Jul 30, 2020 | |

A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence.

“At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.’

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