Can We Be Good Without God?: Behaviour, Belonging and the Need to Believe - Hardcover
Where do our beliefs come from? During prayer or meditation are we communicating with God? Or does the concept of God originate in our own minds?
In this wide-ranging book, Dr. Robert Buckman takes us on a journey through the history of human belief, combining philosophy, theology, and new scientific research to discover the origins of religious faith and explore the dilemmas and contradictions of religion in the modern world.
Buckman also examines the relationship between beliefs and ethics. Many of us use rules set by our religion to guide our behavior, yet now, more than ever, religious doctrine can seem out of alignment with our sense of ethical conduct. If you don't believe in God, can you still behave decently and ethically?
This revised and updated edition helps us understand not just why we believe, but how our beliefs affect our actions and how a code of ethics can exist without a deity at its center.
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About the Author:
Robert Buckman, M.D. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a cancer specialist, professor in the department of medicine at the University of Toronto, the current president of the Humanist Association of Canada, and the author (with Karl Sabbagh) of Magic or Medicine?
Review:
"...clear and accessible ... provides a very helpful survey of current ideas on nonreligious approaches to morality." -- Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology
"Buckman's got it right--a realistic and positive moral blueprint for being good." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"This well-written book ... could help protect the world from the kinds of horrors we have seen in the 20th century." -- Free Inquiry, Winter 2002
"Buckman's got it right--a realistic and positive moral blueprint for being good." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"This well-written book ... could help protect the world from the kinds of horrors we have seen in the 20th century." -- Free Inquiry, Winter 2002
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- PublisherPenguin Books Canada, Limited
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 067089222X
- ISBN 13 9780670892228
- BindingHardcover
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