Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and the Desire to Be a God

Lexington Books (2020)
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This book examines a nonconscious and profoundly harmful desire that is almost universally denied: the desire to be a god. Afflicting believers and nonbelievers alike, the desire is manifested in religious myths and throughout the history of philosophy.

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