Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach's and Richard Dawkins's Comprehensive Scientism
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Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach's and Richard Dawkins's Comprehensive Scientism

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Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach's and Richard Dawkins's Comprehensive Scientism

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Science unbound: In this book, the author explores Comprehensive Scientism by juxtaposing the philosophies of one challenging figure of the European Enlightenment with those of a legendary evolutionary biologist. Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach lived from 1723-1789 and wrote one monumental work known as 'the Bible of atheists'. Richard Dawkins, a modern-day scientist and self-declared atheist, is currently galvanizing the secularist movement'. Gerold Reisinger's treatise aims to uncover the motives of d'Holbach and Dawkins for claiming that science is the only source of knowledge to defend atheism. Various aspects of their forms of scientism are outlined and elucidated in relation to the comprehensive form that combines epistemological, ontological, moral and existential scientism. Basic research by Stenmark and Peels frames this philosophical work's analysis and comparison of the two iconic philosophers and their writings. The book shows that scientism is what unites their positions and proves to be as powerful a motive today as it was in the 18th century to render science the know-all and be-all of truth and reality and thereby attempt to obviate religion for humankind.

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Publisher
Cuvillier Verlag
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9783736976917
eBook ISBN
9783736966918
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. 0.1. WHAT IS COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTISM?
  4. 0.2. INTERESTS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS THESIS
  5. 0.3. THE CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH ON SCIENTISM
  6. 0.4. ARCHETYPES OF COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTISM: D’HOLBACH AND DAWKINS
  7. 0.5. MY METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTISM
  8. PART ONE - SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATION OF COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTISM
  9. 1.1. WHAT IS SCIENCE?
  10. 1.2. WHAT IS SCIENTISM?
  11. 1.3. WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTISM?
  12. PART TWO - COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTISM IN THE LIGHT OF PAUL-HENRI THIRY D’HOLBACH’S AND RICHARD DAWKINS’S PUBLICATIONS
  13. 3. EPISTEMOLOGICAL SCIENTISMThe
  14. 4. ONTOLOGICAL SCIENTISM
  15. 5. MORAL SCIENTISM
  16. 6. EXISTENTIAL SCIENTISM
  17. 7. CONCLUSION
  18. 7.1. ATHEISM AS THE MAIN IDEOLOGY THAT DRIVES COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTISM
  19. 7.2. COHERENCE OF COMPREHENSIVE SCIENTISM’S ARGUMENTS
  20. 7.3. QUESTIONS TO BE EXPLORED
  21. CONSULTED WORKS