Bücher von Chapman Cohen

Chapman Cohen's "Determinism or Free-Will?" is a concept-provoking analysis of one of the maximum lasting philosophical issues that has captivated philosophers for millennia. Cohen's paintings, posted in the early 20th century, looks into the warfare among determinism and loose will, contradictory ideas that have an effect on our view of human motion. Cohen engages readers in a riveting evaluation of the debates over the nature of choice, causality, and the amount of character manipulate over acts. He gives a comprehensive explanation, deconstructing the results of each determinism, the belief that activities are predestined by way of antecedent causes, and loose will, the perception that people have the autonomy to make choices unbiased of outside forces. The creator navigates hard philosophical troubles with clarity, making the communication understandable to human beings with numerous intellectual backgrounds. Cohen's work is greater than just a philosophical treatise; it invitations readers to consider the underlying essence of human lifestyles and the consequences of embracing either determinism or unfastened will. Chapman Cohen's "Determinism or Free-Will?" invitations readers to recall the essential troubles that have captivated philosophers in the course of records, supplying an undying investigation of the interaction between destiny and personal activity.

Theism or Atheism: The Great Alternative, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable volume falls within the genres of Philosophy, Psychology, Religion Religion General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

In spite of all that has been done in the way of applying scientific principles to religious ideas, there is much that yet remains to be accomplished. Generally speaking science has only dealt with the subject of religion in its more normal and more regularised forms. The last half-century has produced many elaborate and fruitful studies of the origin of religious ideas, while comparative mythology has shown a close and suggestive relationship between creeds and symbols that were once believed to have nothing in common. But beyond these fields of research there is at least one other that has hitherto been denied the attention it richly deserves. When the anthropologist has described those conditions of primitive culture amid which he believes religious ideas took their origin, and the comparative mythologist has shown us the similarities and inter-relations of widely separated creeds, religious beliefs have yet to submit to the test of a scientific psychology, the function of which is to determine how far the same principles apply to all phases of mental life whether religious or nonreligious. Moreover, in addition to the normal psychical life of man, there is that vast borderland in which the normal merges into the abnormal, and the healthy state into a pathologic one. That there is a physiology of religion is now generally admitted; but that there is also a pathology of religion is not so generally recognised. The present work seeks to emphasise this last aspect. It does not claim to be more than an outline of the subject-a sketch map of a territory that others may fill in more completely. From another point of view the following pages may be regarded as an attempt more completely to apply scientific principles to religious beliefs. And it would be idle to hope that such an attempt could be made without incurring much hostile criticism. In connection with most other subjects the help of science is welcomed; in connection with religion science is still regarded as more or less of an intruder, profaning a sacred subject with vulgar tests and impertinent enquiries. This must almost inevitably follow when one has to face the opposition of thousands of men who have been trained to regard themselves as the authorised exponents of all that pertains to religion, but whose training fails to supply them with a genuine scientific equipment. It should, however, be clear that an attitude of hostility to science, veiled or open, cannot be maintained. Mere authority has fallen on evil days, and in all directions is being freely challenged. There is increasing dislike to systems of thought that shrink from examination, and to conclusions that cannot withstand the most rigorous investigation. And if science really has anything of value to say on this question it cannot be held to silence for ever. Sooner or later the need for its assistance will be felt, and the self-elected authority of an order must give way. It is, moreover, impossible for science with its claim, sometimes avowed, but always implied, to cover the whole of life, to forego so large a territory as that of religion. For there can be no reasonable question that religion has played, and still plays a large part in the life of the race. Whatever be the nature of religion, science is bound either to deal with it or confess its main task to be hopeless.

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