Seeking the truth (Record no. 231417)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781591027744
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 201.65 SCH
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name "Schlagel, Richard H"
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Title Seeking the truth
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Humanity Books
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 518p.
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Price amount 9000
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Summary, etc. In this sweeping intellectual history, philosopher Richard H. Schlagel compares the conceptual worldviews of science and religion, their distinct historical origins, their radically different experiential foundations, and their contrasting methods of justification. With great clarity and an impressive command of the historical facts, he depicts Western civilization as a composite of two diverse traditions—the empirical-rationalistic perspective of the ancient Greek philosophers and the mystical-revelatory approach of Judeo-Christian religion. Today, science, the inheritor of the Greek empirical-rationalistic approach, is clearly in the ascendancy.<br/><br/>Schlagel shows how and why science has achieved its remarkable success, while religion, still burdened by archaic, static concepts anchored in a vanished past, has experienced more and more cognitive and emotional difficulties accommodating scientific discoveries.<br/><br/>Looking to the future, Schlagel argues that scientific inquiry is clearly superior to faith in ancient religious doctrines to cope with the challenges of climate change, energy sources, environmental protection, population increases, and the global economy. He concludes that the health of democratic societies will depend, in large part, on an educated citizenry that appreciates the importance of science and recognizes the retrograde tendencies of the fundamentalist mindset both in the United States and abroad.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Religion and science-History
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-08 9000.00   201.65 SCH 148235 2020-02-08 9000.00 2020-02-08 Books

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