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By Paul Kurtz,Nathan Bupp

ISBN-10: 1616142316

ISBN-13: 9781616142315

The secular age has faced people with a basic problem. whereas the naturalistic worldview rooted in technological know-how has persuasively proven that conventional spiritual conceptions of the universe are unsustainable, it has to date provided no compelling secular narratives to switch the spiritual narratives so entrenched in civilization. within the absence of faith, how do considerate modern contributors locate which means in a mundane world?

In this publication, thinker Paul Kurtz argues for a brand new procedure that he calls eupraxsophy.  Kurtz first coined the time period in 1988 to represent a mundane orientation to lifestyles that stands unlike faith. Derived from 3 old Greek roots, eupraxsophy actually potential "good perform and wisdom." Drawing upon philosophy, technology, and ethics, eupraxsophy offers a completely secular ethical imaginative and prescient, which respects where of human values within the context of the wildlife and offers an empirically dependable but hopeful photo of the human state of affairs and the cosmos within which we abide.

Editor Nathan Bupp has with ease accrued jointly Kurtz’s key writings in regards to the thought and perform of eupraxsophy for the 1st time during this volume. Written with eloquence and scope, those incisive essays exhibit how Kurtz's model of humanism strikes above and past the present "new atheism." Eupraxsophy effectively bridges the cultural divide among technological know-how and cost and offers a real and positive substitute to faith.

Bupp’s informative introduction places the concept that of eupraxsophy in old point of view and indicates why it truly is seriously vital, and correct, today.

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