City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right

How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature—and why that quest often leads us astrayPeople have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as separate f...

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Main Author: Bell, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Further subjects:B Philosophy of nature
B Human Ecology Religious aspects
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
B Nature Moral and ethical aspects
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