Willem B. Drees (ed.)

Is Nature Ever Evil?

Religion, Science and Value
Herausgeber: Drees, Willem B

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Produktbeschreibung

Can one call nature 'evil'? Or is life a matter of eating and being eaten, where value judgments should not be applied? Is nature beautiful? Or is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Scientists often pretend that their disciplines only describe and analyze natural processes in factual terms, without making evaluative statements regarding reality. However, scientists may also be driven by the beauty of that which they study. Or they may be appalled by suffering they encounter, and look for technical or medical means 'to improve nature'. Outside of the scientific community, value judgments are even more common. Humans evaluate nature and natural processes in moral, aesthetic and religious terms as cruel, beautiful, hopeful or meaningless. Is nature ultimately good, with all suffering and evil justified in the context of the larger evolutionary process? Or is nature to be improved, via culture or technology, as it is considered less adequate than it could be? In this book, some major scientists, theologians, and philosophers discuss these issues. As a study on the relations between religion and science, this is unique in emphasizing the evaluation of nature, rather than treating religion and science as competing or complementary casual explanations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780415290609
• ISBN-10: 0415290600
• Artikelnr.: 22040500

Autorenporträt

Willem B. Drees

Inhaltsangabe

Willem B. Drees
This vale of tears-the best of all possible worlds? Part I NATURE
SCIENCE AND VALUE Willem B. Drees
Nature
science and value: Introduction to Part I 1. Mary Midgley
Criticizing the cosmos 2. Silvia Völker
Response to Midgley's 'Criticizing the cosmos' 3. Hans Radder
Midgley on science
nature
metaphysics and ethics: Some comments 4. Joachim Leilich
Mind and value: Reflections on Max Weber 5.Tatjana Visak
The moral relevance of naturalness 6. Angela Roothaan
The experience of nature: A hermeneutic approach 7. Peter Scheers
Human interpretation and animal excellence Part II: EVIL EVOLUTIONAY JUSTIFIED? Willem B. Drees
Evil evolutionary justified? Introduction to Part II 8. Holmes Rolston
III
Naturalizing and systematizing evil 9. Jacobus J. de Vries
Cooperation or competition-comments on Rolston 10. Jozef Keulartz
Rolston: A Contemporary physico-theologian 11. Jan Smit
Are catastrophes in nature ever evil? 12 Arthur Petersen
Contingency and risk: Comment on Smit 13. Fred Spier
Nature does not care indeed
but humans do: A commentary 14. Claudia Sanides-Kohlrausch
The Lisbon Earthquake
1755: A discourse about the 'nature' of nature 15 Arnold Benz
Tradegy versus hope: A theological response 17. Neil A. Manson
Cosmic fine-tuning
'many universe' theories and the goodness of life Part III IMPROVING NATURE VIA CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY? John H. Brooke
Improvable nature? 19. Leo P. ten Kate
Victims of nature cry out 20. Henk. G. Geertsema
'Improvable nature?' Some meta-historical reflections 21. Kris Dierick
Is nature neutral? The concept of health 22 Philip Hefner
Nature good and evil: A theological palette 23. Wessel Stoker
Nature Good and Evil: A theological evaluation 24. Eduardo R. Cruz
The quest for perfection: Insights from Paul Tillich 25. Mathew Illathuparampil
Normativity of nature: Natural law in a technological lifeworld 26 Anne Kull
Exploring technonature with cyborgs Part IV VALUES AS EXPLANATIONS OR VALUES EXPLAINED? 27.Keith Ward
Two forms of explanation 28 Martien E. Brikman
Two forms of explanation: A response to Ward 29 Ronald Meester
Two forms of explanation: A response to Ward 30. Edwin Koster
The evaluation of natural reality: A watertight case? 31. Lindon B. Eaves
'Ought' in a world that just 'is' 32 Angela Roothaan
What values guide our oughts? 33. Tatjana Visak
The Normative relevance of disputes in primatology 34. Nico van Straalen
Jair Stein
Evolutionary views of the biological basis of religion 35. Mladen Turk
On pattern recognition
evolution
epistemology
religion and evil.