One of the world's best-known philosophers argues that there is no good or sufficient natural reason to believe: (a) that the universe is created by a conscious, personal, willing and doing Being; (b) that such a Being has nevertheless provided his (or her or its) creatures with a Revelation; or (c) that we should either hope or fear some future for ourselves after death. He also examines: (a) the perennial charge that a naturalistic world-outlook presupposes values for which it cannot itself make room and (b) those sociologists of belief who refute themselves by refusing to admit that there is such a thing as objective knowledge. He also discusses Marx and classical Marxism, and includes four essays in what has come to be called applied philosophy, wherein Flew tackles the issues of voluntary euthanasia, psychology and mental health, race discrimination, and freedom and human nature.
