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God and the Secular

This book concerns secularising trends in science, moral philosophy and natural theology across the period from 1600 to 1800. These trends are both delineated and appraised.

God and the Secular: Philosophical Assessment of Secular Reasoning from Bacon to Kant

This book concerns secularising trends in science, moral philosophy and natural theology across the period from 1600 to 1800. These trends are both delineated and appraised. The approaches of early modern scientists from Bacon, Galileo and Descartes to Locke, Leibniz and Newton are discussed, with their different takes on the relation of science and faith. So are the approaches to morals and society of Thomas Hobbes and those who replied to him, including Clarke, Hume and Price. The later parts of the book respond to the critiques of the basis of belief in God from Hume and Kant, arguing that certain versions of the classical arguments survive those critiques. The second edition of this book (originally published in 1978) was published by Gregg Revivals in 1993; this publisher was subsequently taken over by Routledge in 2015.

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