Albert Einstein's Philosophy of Religion

THERE is scarcely any fundamental area of human concern that did not challenge thought of Albert Einstein. Although great achievements of his genius belong especially in fields of physics and mathematics, he also wrote on ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, political theory, education, sociology, history of scientific and philosophic thought, and a great deal on religion.' True it is that, except for his theories in realm of physics and mathematics, he did not treat these fields systematically, scholarly and exhaustively. His writings, however, are abundant enough for scholar to be able to unravel from their implications general character of Einstein's thought on ultimate issues, and to appraise by way of internal criticism this thought in terms of Einstein's own dialectics. As name of Einstein immediately reminds one of special and general theories of relativity, Brownian movement of molecules, his influence on quantum analysis, and many ways in which his penetrating scientific vision has revolutionized thinking of modern man, one feels naturally inclined to associate him only with science, and particularly, with physical science. A consideration of Einstein's conception of science must be, therefore, illuminating and fruitful. Science is, he tells us, the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought perceptible phe

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