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100 1 _aJackson, William
245 1 4 _aThe Philosophy of Natural Theology :
_bAn Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2014-11-08
508 _aProduced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
520 _a"The Philosophy of Natural Theology" by William Jackson is a philosophical essay written in the late 19th century. The work was developed as a prize-winning essay at Oxford, confuting contemporary materialism and skepticism through the lens of natural theology. It discusses the existence of a Supreme Being and the implications of moral responsibility intertwined with human existence. The opening of the essay lays the groundwork for Jackson’s exploration of two fundamental human inquiries: the existence of a future life and the belief in a Supreme Being. He frames these questions as essential to human thought and societal well-being, illustrating that the instinctual belief in immortality and a higher moral authority is intrinsic across cultures. Jackson then critiques modern skepticism by presenting arguments that counter materialism, emphasizing the interplay between external observations of the universe and internal moral consciousness, setting up a methodical approach to explore these topics meaningfully. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aReligion and science
653 _aNatural theology
653 _aReligion -- Philosophy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47314
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