FROM BELIEF TO UNBELIEF AND BACK TO BELIEF: A RESPONSE TO MICHAEL RUSE

Richard P. Busse; Richard P. Busse

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.1994.tb00648.x

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Abstract. Michael Ruse's rejection of religious belief is questioned at two levels. First, on the metaethical level of analysis, evolutionary ethics cannot account for moral behavior that is based on a “strong version” of the Love Command. Second, agnosticism is discussed as a form of belief. Insights from religious forms of life that are inclusive, pluralistic, and expansive are contrasted with exclusivistic, closed, and fundamentalist forms of religion in order to develop criteria for “genuine religion.” Theistic agnosticism is presented as a prolegomena to belief.

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religious truth, existentialism, metaethics, ethics, faith, Michael Ruse, naturalistic, transformation, transcendental ideals, agnosticism

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Busse, R., (1994) “FROM BELIEF TO UNBELIEF AND BACK TO BELIEF: A RESPONSE TO MICHAEL RUSE”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 29(1), 55–65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1994.tb00648.x

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