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Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism

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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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Cover of: Three essays on religion
Three essays on religion: Nature, The utility of religion, Theism
1998, Prometheus Books
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Cover of: Three essays on religion.
Three essays on religion.
1969, Greenwood Press, ABC-CLIO, LLC
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Cover of: Three essays on religion
Three essays on religion
1874, Henry Holt and Co., H. Holt and Company
in English
Cover of: Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism
Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism
1874, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
in English
Cover of: Three Essays on Religion
Three Essays on Religion
1874, H. Holt
in English
Cover of: Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism
Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism
1874, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
Cover of: Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism.
Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism.
1874, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
Cover of: Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism
Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism
1874, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
in English
Cover of: Nature, The utility of religion, and Theism
Nature, The utility of religion, and Theism
1874, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
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Half-title: Three essays on religion.

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London

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Library of Congress
BL51 .M6 1874, BL51

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Pagination
2 p. l., [vii]-xi p., 2 l., [3] 257, [1] p.
Number of pages
257

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Open Library
OL6551993M
Internet Archive
cu31924029045826
LCCN
12036786
OCLC/WorldCat
377330, 1275399121, 24920273, 7143925
Library Thing
1124433

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