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by Aldous Huxley

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Accession 10559 ISBN — Publisher Watts & Co.
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In these 12 essays Huxley stakes the position of the sceptical humanist, who accepts the insights of Darwin and Russell and others, but is not concerned to discard the entire heritage of religion and the art it may have inspired. Science can't and shouldn't try to rule over metaphysics, and we should reconstruct the philosophies of the past as expressions of individual psychologies. The intellectual failing of the religious zealot is his demand for "consistency" (also a flaw of the too-certain non-believer), failing to grasp the multiplicity of human responses to the world. Huxley instead commends the goal of "harmony", and the real charge to be put against the religious life is that it stultifies and perverts human material. The quest for certain foundations is a futile one, since none are available and in any case they could not do the work of founding ethics and aesthetics. Instead we should accept the plurality of idioms and not bother about any form of reductionism. "Truth" is a trick-word used by churhcmen, an idea crystallised in that line about "true truth" in "Eyeless In Gaza". -- Jonathan Norton, Good Reads.

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