Freedom, fatalism, and foreknowledge
We typically think we have free will. But how could we have free will, if for anything we do, it was already true in the distant past that we could do that thing? Or how could we have free will, if God already knows in advance all the details of our lives? Such issues raise the …
"What is God? Does He exist? Can we know? The God Confusion is a down-to-earth guide for anyone interested in these questions. It does not evangelize for God and religion, or for atheism, secularism and science. Instead, it explores in a witty yet balanced way the idea of God an…
"How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replace…
This study, based on the Bampton Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in 1992, examines what is often called the crisis of modernity, with reference not only to modernity but to modern culture in general. Problems of social, theological, and philosophical thought are t…
Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion. Fremstedal offer…
Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion. Fremstedal offer…
