I didn't realize Ronald Dworkin died last month. Apparently, he recently finished authoring a book titled Religion Without God that will be published soon. Here's a blurb about it from the NYT website:
The NYT blurb is found here:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...gious-atheism/
The excerpt from the first chapter of the book is found here:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/arch...gination=false
At first glance, it looks like this will dovetail with some of his critical legal studies work. I'll be interested to see more once it's published.
Later this year will see the release of “Religion Without God,” a posthumous work by the late, eminent legal and political philosopher Ronald Dworkin, and The New York Review of Books has posted an excerpt from the first chapter. Dworkin, too, believes there is no contradiction in the term “religious atheism,” and offers no less towering examples than Shelley, Einstein and William James to show that it’s possible to adopt what he calls a “religious attitude,” a worldview which “accepts the full, independent reality of value,” as distinct from scientific fact, and which holds that both individuals and the natural world they inhabit have intrinsic, transcendental value, without believing in a personal God. Putting naturalism and its proponents, who are committed to the position that there can be no independent objective realm of value, to one side, Dworkin’s goal is to emphasize “the importance of what is shared” by subscribers of both “godly and godless religion.” That, in a word, he thinks, is faith. And while believers may think their faith in God differs substantially from the “faith” of an atheist, Dworkin’s rather startling conclusion is that the faith of theists is necessarily identical to that of religious atheists.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...gious-atheism/
The excerpt from the first chapter of the book is found here:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/arch...gination=false
At first glance, it looks like this will dovetail with some of his critical legal studies work. I'll be interested to see more once it's published.
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