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Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism that it is at least as strong as the case for either theism or atheism. He draws on a range of secular and religious ethical traditions to conclude that a non-human-centred cosmic purpose can ground a distinctive human morality. Our moral practices, our view of the moral universe, and our moral theory are all transformed if we shift from the familiar choice between a universe without meaning and a universe where humans matter to the less self-aggrandising thought that, while it is about something, the universe is not about us.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780198822776
eBay Product ID (ePID)16046520470
Product Key Features
Book TitlePurpose in the Universe: the Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism
Publication Year2019
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
AuthorTim Mulgan
TopicPopular Philosophy
Dimensions
Item Height233 mm
Item Weight640 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorTim Mulgan