الذات الإلهية والحقيقة: أطروحة عن العقل والأفكار الدينية

The American philosopher Len E. Goodman discusses in this book, ([The Divine Self and Truth](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/god-and-truth/EAE7A340C4E89C94752CE4A3F0B3154C): A Treatise on the Mind and Religious Ideas) published by Cambridge University Press in March 2026 in 206 pages, as part of the Cambridge Studies series in Religion, philosophy and society, an intense philosophical dialogue with the questions of the “divine idea” when placed under the light of reason: Is God necessary to exist? Is it possible to imagine Him being eternal and simple at the same time? How do we understand the idea of ​​creation in a world that seems equally capable of explaining itself? Goodman, a professor of philosophy and humanities at Vanderbilt University in the United States, starts from religious texts and philosophical heritage, and builds bridges between multiple schools throughout the history of thought, in a discussion that extends from Plato and Aristotle to Philo, Maimonides, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant. The book is distinguished by the fact that it does not merely present classical arguments, but rather tests them in broader contexts that touch the core of human life: existential arguments, design arguments, the human principle, the dilemma of evil, the nature of justice and fairness, all the way to the question of meaning in art. One of his most interesting topics is his question about what the discourse of science might have looked like if scientists had allowed themselves to express religious responses to their discoveries - as was attributed to Einstein - and then he concludes with a pause at prominent moral models such as the Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, Albert Schweitzer, and Mahatma Gandhi, as evidence of the intersection of truth and value in the human experience. Source