![]() ![]() A foremost “new atheist,” Sam Harris, promotes nontheistic meditation in Awaking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion (2015). In recent years, several atheists have advocated a Buddhist spirituality. In this, Wright’s approach is similar to that of Fritjoff Capra’s influential book The Tao of Physics (1975), which advanced an Eastern worldview by showing its supposed consonance with discoveries in quantum physics. ![]() In other words, neuroscience comes to the rescue of Buddhism. ![]() But Darwin is ready at hand, so he invokes a problem-ridden philosophy of nature (Darwinism) 1 to explain belief in God without affirming anything supernatural.ĭarwinism, neuroscience, and his own experience meditating give Wright the basic categories for assessing Buddhism but, unlike his argument in The Evolution of God, Wright, defends certain Buddhist ideas instead of debunking the religion itself. In The Evolution of God (2010), Wright thinks that there are no good reasons to believe in monotheism. Robert Wright is a popular author whose award-winning books attempt to explain religion and morality according to Darwinian assumptions - human beliefs, morality, and culture have their only roots in the adaptive mechanisms of naturalistic evolution. ![]()
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