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We are, people will tell us, in the midst of a religious war. Depending on who you believe, either science is making us immoral heathens or religion is making us ignorant rubes. William Egginton, however, challenges this view. He not only claims that this dichotomy is false, he asserts that the two sides are both fundamentalists and cut from the same cloth. Egginton argues that we should all be religious moderates combining scientific truth with religious belief.
William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of In Defense of Religious Moderation, How the World Became a Stage, Perversity and Ethics, A Wrinkle in History, The Philosopher’s Desire, and The Theater of Truth. He is also coeditor of Thinking with Borges and The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy, and translator of Lisa Block de Behar’s Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation.
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Publication Date
2-10-2013
Publisher
Institute for Philosophy in Public Life
City
Grand Forks, ND
Keywords
Religions--Relations ; Religious pluralism ; Moderation--Religious aspects
Disciplines
Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Weinstein, Jack Russell and Egginton, William, "The Case for Religious Moderation" (2013). Why? Radio Podcast Archive. 85.
https://commons.und.edu/why-radio-archive/85