New PDF release: Meaning and Value in a Secular Age: Why Eupraxsophy Matters

By Paul Kurtz,Nathan Bupp

ISBN-10: 1616142316

ISBN-13: 9781616142315

The secular age has faced humans 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 up to now provided no compelling secular narratives to interchange the non secular narratives so entrenched in civilization. within the absence of faith, how do considerate modern members locate which means in an earthly world?

In this booklet, thinker Paul Kurtz argues for a brand new process that he calls eupraxsophy. Kurtz first coined the time period in 1988 to symbolize an earthly orientation to lifestyles that stands unlike faith. Derived from 3 old Greek roots, eupraxsophy actually skill "good perform and wisdom." Drawing upon philosophy, technological know-how, and ethics, eupraxsophy offers a completely secular ethical imaginative and prescient, which respects where of human values within the context of the flora and fauna and offers an empirically dependable but hopeful photograph of the human scenario and the cosmos during which we abide.

Editor Nathan Bupp has with ease accumulated jointly Kurtz’s key writings concerning the idea 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 technology and cost and offers a real and positive replacement to faith.

Bupp’s informative introduction places the concept that of eupraxsophy in historic standpoint and indicates why it's seriously very important, and correct, today.

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