Atheism

In the first book of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, The Golden Compass, Lord Asriel (played by James McAvoy in HBO’s adaptation of the book) discovers a mysterious substance, called Dust, that exists everywhere and seems to be implicated in consciousness. For Pullman, Dust is an expression of his fascination with panpsychism, the philosophical idea […]

He believed the lawful harmony of the universe suggested the existence of Spinoza‘s God.

The writer had a reverence for science and philosophy, and a conviction that both should be the basis of personal belief and ethics in society.