Published between 1850 and 1870, these essays by English social and political philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) offers his most sustained analysis of religious belief. Though not prepared to abandon the idea of an overall design in nature, Mill nonetheless argues that its violence and capriciousness mitigate against moral ends in nature's workings. Moreover, any designer of such a world as we experience cannot be all powerful and all good, for nature is "too clumsily made and capriciously governed."
- ISBN10 1151289345
- ISBN13 9781151289346
- Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published 1 January 1969)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 27 October 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint General Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English