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Man is not a combination of an impersonal rational thinker and a personal will.
Iris Murdoch • The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Great Minds)
Kant now argues that man, not nature, is the source of the synthetic a priori truths that constitute genuine knowledge.396
John M. Frame • A History of Western Philosophy and Theology
It’s not sustainable. God continues to haunt this secular age with our desire for goodness.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Descartes was a proponent of the mechanistic model of the universe—a view that the universe is controlled by predictable laws.
Joe Dispenza • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
practical significance
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
The biblical concept of a lawful world operating as the creation of God, by fixed and reliable principles, was the fundamental assumption needed to conceive the laws of nature and utilize them for human benefit.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”
Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics
argument
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
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