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Purpose in the universe [electronic resource] : the moral and metaphysical case for ananthropocentric purposivism / Tim Mulgan.

Mulgan, Tim, author.
2015
BL51 .M845 2015eb
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Title
Purpose in the universe [electronic resource] : the moral and metaphysical case for ananthropocentric purposivism / Tim Mulgan.
Author
Mulgan, Tim, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191813993 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646142
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (435 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646142 doi
Call Number
BL51 .M845 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
210
Summary
Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan defends a third way. Ananthropocentric purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. He argues that non-human-centred cosmic purpose can ground a distinctive human morality.
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Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan defends a third way. Ananthropocentric purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. He argues that non-human-centred cosmic purpose can ground a distinctive human morality.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015).
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1. Introduction
2. Meta-ethics
pt. I. The Case against Atheism
3. Cosmological Arguments
4. Teleological Arguments
5. Mysticism
6. Ontological Arguments
pt. II. The Case against Benevolent Theism
7. Arguments from Scale
8. Arguments from Evil
9. Religious Diversity
10. Immortality
pt. III. Ananthropocentric Purposivist Morality
11. A Dialogue
12. Human Well-being
13. Ananthropocentric Purposivist Moral Theory.

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