In Quest of Freedom
The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World
Description:... "Clayton defends the idea of human freedom as an emergent property against various forms of reductionism, especially as evidenced in the writings of some philosophers. Working through an enormous amount of scholarly literature, much of it in the area of evolutionary biology, he tries to show how human freedom, even the freedom implicit in religious transcendence, can be thought to emerge from more primitive levels. His lectures and this book are outstanding examples of the constructive dialogue among natural science, philosophy and religion of the sort that the Frankfurt Lectures have sought to promote." --Book Jacket.
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