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A Secular Age

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  • 2007
  • #Philosophy #Religion
Charles Taylor
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Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over the years. This book takes up the question of what these changes mean—of what, pr... Show More

Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over the years. This book takes up the question of what these changes mean—of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

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Number of Pages: 874

ISBN: 0674026764

ISBN-13: 9780674026766

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Erik Torenberg @ErikTorenberg · Jan 1, 2021
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Charles Taylor traces how we became a secular society. Darwin, Nietzsche, and Marx stripped the world of its cosmic meaning through natural selection, metaphysics, & economics respectively. We could no longer trust external authority, so we went inwards
Erik Torenberg @ErikTorenberg · Jan 1, 2021
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