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The Problem with God: Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong
Peter J. Steinberger
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Description for The Problem with God: Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB1; HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
Whether people praise, worship, criticize, or reject God, they all presuppose at least a rough notion of what it means to talk about God. Turning the certainty of this assumption on its head, a respected educator and humanist shows that when we talk about God, we are in fact talking about nothing at all-there is literally no such idea-and so all of the arguments we hear from atheists, true believers, and agnostics are and will always be empty and self-defeating. Peter J. Steinberger's commonsense account is by no means disheartening or upsetting, leaving readers without anything meaningful to hold ... Read more
Whether people praise, worship, criticize, or reject God, they all presuppose at least a rough notion of what it means to talk about God. Turning the certainty of this assumption on its head, a respected educator and humanist shows that when we talk about God, we are in fact talking about nothing at all-there is literally no such idea-and so all of the arguments we hear from atheists, true believers, and agnostics are and will always be empty and self-defeating. Peter J. Steinberger's commonsense account is by no means disheartening or upsetting, leaving readers without anything meaningful to hold ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231163552
SKU
V9780231163552
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About Peter J. Steinberger
Peter J. Steinberger is the Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities at Reed College, where he also served as dean of the faculty from 1997 to 2010. He is the author of The Idea of the State, The Concept of Political Judgment, Logic and Politics: Hegel's Philosophy of Right, and Ideology and the Urban ... Read more
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