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The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions

By Alex Rosenberg

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2011
ISBN
0393080234, 9780393080230
LCC
BL2747.3 .R67 2011
Google Books ID
sqpqeetCs5oC
Open Library ID
OL24853804M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
664 kB (680047 bytes)
Edition
1st ptg
Pages
368\0
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Религиоведение;Атеизм и свободомыслие

Description

A book for nonbelievers who embrace the reality-driven life.We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them—all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description of reality and accepts all its consequences. He shows how physics makes Darwinian natural selection the only way life can emerge, and how that deprives nature of purpose, and human action of meaning, while it exposes conscious illusions such as free will and the self. The science that makes us nonbelievers provides the insight into the real difference between right and wrong, the nature of the mind, even the direction of human history. The Atheist's Guide to Reality draws powerful implications for the ethical and political issues that roil contemporary life. The result is nice nihilism, a surprisingly sanguine perspective atheists can happily embrace.

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