Three Essays on Religion: Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism - Softcover

Mill, John Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3959401779 ISBN 13: 9783959401777

Publisher: Reprint Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1874 (second edition) with excellent resolution and outstanding readability.

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From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

John Stuart Mill (born May 20, 1806, died May 8, 1873). He was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called “the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century”. Mill’s conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.

About this edition

• Publisher: Reprint Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3959401779
• ISBN 13: 9783959401777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274