Elements Of Modern Materialism - Softcover

Charles Knowlton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461345978 ISBN 13: 9780461345971

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Elements Of Modern Materialism: Inculcating The Idea Of A Future State, In Which All Will Be More Happy, Under Whatever Circumstances They May Be Placed Than If They Experienced No Misery In This Life by Charles Knowlton presents a polemical, physiology-based defense of materialism. The work argues that mental states, passions, conscience, religion, sleep, dreaming, insanity, and death are best explained by nervous-system processes (sensorium, brain, nerves) rather than immaterial souls or supernatural causes, and it contends that conscience and religious experience arise from sensorial and neural actions. It further asserts that materialism can be reconciled with Christianity while immaterialist views conflict with core Christian doctrines such as resurrection. The text surveys sensorium-driven explanations of sensation, memory, judgment, imagination, language, signs, belief, and morality, and it treats religion as a physiological phenomenon shaped by belief, social influence, and fear rather than divine intervention. Through case studies, discussions of dreams, madness, death, and the future state, Knowlton argues for a naturalistic worldview grounded in brain physiology, empirical evidence, and a rational view of God’s design rather than miraculous intervention.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461345978
• ISBN 13: 9780461345971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458