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 Is God A Delusion: A Reply to Religion's Cultured Despisers $89.95 Unfortunately in responding to the New Atheists, Reitan followed the standard strategy of first re-defining religion so that it no longer matches the target that the New Atheists attack, then defending the re-defined religion, and then finally claiming that since re-defined religion is so easily defended, that the New Atheists are therefore wrong. Reitan's conclusion is unwarranted, because his conception of religion is so different from what the New Atheists use that the actual arguments of the New Atheists are engaged only rarely. So the book was a major disappointment on that point. Nevertheless the book is still well worth reading. The book may not have engaged the New Atheists very well, but it was very thoughtful, civil, and of much better quality than some of the other responses to the New Atheists that I've read, some of which were not much more than open demagoguery.  The Argument from Injustice: A Reply to Legal Positivism (Law) $139.95 At the heart of this book is the age-old question of how law and morality are related. The legal positivist, insisting on the separation of the two, explicates the concept of law independently of morality. The author challenges this view, arguing that there are, first, conceptually necessary connections between law and morality and, second, normative reasons for including moral elements in the concept of law. |
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