Looking for something to read in the new year?
Atheistic Platonism: A Manifesto by Eric Steinhart is available as an e-book or printed format via Amazon.
Eric Charles Steinhart is Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University. Among many articles and books, he has authored Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death, The Logic of Metaphor and Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism. You may wish to visit Steinhart’s website for chapter abstracts as a sampler.
According to Steinhart, “Atheistic Platonism is an alternative to both theism and nihilistic atheism. Where atheisms based on materialism fail, atheisms based on Platonism succeed.
Atheistic Platonism provides reality with foundations that are eternal, necessary, rational, beautiful, and utterly mindless. It argues for a plenitude of mathematical objects, and an infinite plurality of possible universes.
Atheistic Platonism provides mindless rational grounds for objective values, and for objective moral laws for the persons who evolve in universes.
Atheistic Platonism defines a meaningful and spiritually deep way of life, which facilitates ethical self-improvement.
Atheistic Platonism includes computational theories of life after death, in which humans ascend through transhuman and superhuman degrees of animal excellence.
Atheistic Platonism includes a rich system of spiritual symbols. It values transformational practices and ecstatic experiences.”
- Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2023 edition (December 1, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 3031177517
- ISBN-13 : 978-3031177514
Citations, References And Other Reading
- Featured Photo Courtesy of : ericsteinhart.com
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/archive-collection/platonic-atheism
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