Three essays on religion
Nature, The utility of religion, Theism
by John Stuart Mill
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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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Three Essays On Religion - Nature The Utility Of Religion And Theism
Oct 11, 2018, Franklin Classics
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Nature; The Utility Of Religion; And Theism
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Nature The Utility Of Religion And Theism
March 31, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism
September 22, 2000, Adamant Media Corporation
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Three essays on religion: Nature, The utility of religion, Theism
1998, Prometheus Books
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Three Essays on Religion: 1878 Edition (Key Texts)
December 1996, Thoemmes Press
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Three Essays on Religion
June 1974, Greenwood Pub Group
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Nature, The utility of religion, and Theism.
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Three essays on religion: Nature, The utility of religion, and Theism.
1874, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer
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Nature, The utility of religion, and Theism
1874, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
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Nature, The Utility of religion, and Theism
1874, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
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Originally published: Nature, The utility of religion, and Theism. London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874.
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