Belief and Make-Believe : Critical Reflections On The Sources of Credulity.

Why do so many people - sometimes even intelligent people - swallow the preposterous claims of religion? G.A. Wells, the leading freethinker of our time, tries to shed light on this puzzle in his entertaining and enormously learned book, Belief and Make-Believe. Professor Wells begins by analyzing t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wells, George Albert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Open Court, 2013.
Temas:
Thought and thinking.
Reason.
Instinct.
Emotions.
Apologetics > History.
Poetry > Religious aspects.
Pensée.
Raison.
Apologétique > Histoire.
Religion et poésie.
thinking.
reason.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Apologetics
Emotions
Instinct
Reason
Poetry > Religious aspects
Thought and thinking
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Why do so many people - sometimes even intelligent people - swallow the preposterous claims of religion? G.A. Wells, the leading freethinker of our time, tries to shed light on this puzzle in his entertaining and enormously learned book, Belief and Make-Believe. Professor Wells begins by analyzing the nature of belief. To dispel popular confusions on the relation between words and thoughts, he compares the thinking process of scientists, laymen, and chimpanzees. The power of emotion and instinct to help form people's ideological outlooks is analyzed by preference to "
Descripción Física:1 online resource (333 pages)
ISBN:9780812698701
0812698703

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