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James Martineau was born in Norwich, United Kingdom on April 21, 1805, the brother of Harriet Martineau.
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A synthesis of the lifelong thinking of British theologian philosopher JAMES MARTINEAU (1805-1900), this astonishing work, written when he was 80 and published in 1885, continues to offer important insight into the borderlands between faith and reason. A devout champion of Christianity, Martineau was also one of the first religious thinkers to recognize the import of Darwin's theory of evolution, and here, he interprets and applies ethics-which he defines as "the doctrine of human character"-in a world undergoing a radical paradigm shift. In Volume I, Martineau examines the philosophies of Plato, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Comte and explores concepts of how we know what we know, how we can interpret knowledge, and what separates truth from fact.
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(A synthesis of the lifelong thinking of British theologia...)
A synthesis of the lifelong thinking of British theologian philosopher JAMES MARTINEAU (1805-1900), this astonishing work, written when he was 80 and published in 1885, continues to offer important insight into the borderlands between faith and reason. A devout champion of Christianity, Martineau was also one of the first religious thinkers to recognize the import of Darwin's theory of evolution, and here, he interprets and applies ethics-which he defines as "the doctrine of human character"-in a world undergoing a radical paradigm shift. In Volume II, Martineau discusses such issues as moral judgment, moral authority, the psychological states that compel everything we do and feel, concepts of justice, how psychology is impacted by Darwin's work, and much more.
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James Martineau was born in Norwich, United Kingdom on April 21, 1805, the brother of Harriet Martineau.
James was educated at Norwich Grammar School where he was a school-fellow with George Borrow under Edward Valpy, as good a scholar as his better-known brother Richard, but proved too sensitive for school. He was sent to Bristol to the private academy of Dr. Lant Carpenter, under whom he studied for two years.
From 1827 to 1832 he served as a Unitarian minister in Dublin and in Liverpool. In 1840, after his college had moved to Manchester, Martineau became professor of philosophy in it, later following it to London. He did not retire until 1885. Martineau was a widely read scholar; his repudiation of sectarian denominationalism in 1860 aroused opposition, but he lived to be greatly esteemed.
Best known of his works are Types of Ethical Theory (2 vols. , 1885), A Study of Religion (2 vols. , 1888), and The Seat of Authority in Religion (1890).
(A synthesis of the lifelong thinking of British theologia...)
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(The Seat of Authority in Religion - Third Edition is an u...)
Quotations:
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
One of his children was the watercolourist Edith Martineau.