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Is Nature Ever Evil?, considers the different ways in which reality is understood between the disciplines of ethics, religion and science focusing on the ethical evaluation of nature itself.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Drees, Willem B., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Temas:
Philosophy of nature.
Nature > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Nature > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christian ethics.
Philosophie de la nature.
Nature > Aspect moral.
Sciences > Aspect moral.
Nature > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
PHILOSOPHY > Good & Evil.
Christian ethics
Nature > Moral and ethical aspects
Nature > Religious aspects > Christianity
Philosophy of nature
Science > Moral and ethical aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • This vale of tears
  • the best of all possible worlds? / Willem B. Drees
  • PART I. NATURE, SCIENCE AND VALUE
  • Criticizing the cosmos / Mary Midgley
  • Response to Mary Midgley's 'criticizing the cosmos' / Silvia Völker
  • Mary Midgley on science, nature, metaphysics and ethics: some comments / Hans Radder
  • Mind and value: reflections on Max Weber / Joachim Leilich
  • Moral relevance of naturalness / Tatjana Visak
  • Experience of nature: a hermeneutic approach / Angela Roothaan
  • Human interpretation and animal excellence / Peter Scheers
  • PART II. EVIL EVOLUTIONARY JUSTIFIED?
  • Naturalizing and systematizing evil / Holmes Rolston, III
  • Cooperation or competition: comments on Rolston / Jacobus J. De Vries
  • Rolston: a contemporary physico-theologian / Jozef Keulartz
  • Are catastrophes in nature ever evil? / Jan Smit
  • Contingency and risk: comment on Smit / Arthur C. Petersen
  • Nature does not care indeed, but humans do: a commentary / Fred Spier
  • Lisbon earthquake, 1755: a discourse about the 'nature' of nature / Claudia Sanides-Kohlrausch
  • Tradegy versus hope: what future in an open universe? / Arnold Benz
  • Tragedy versus hope? A theological response / Eduardo R. Cruz
  • Cosmic fine-tuning, 'many universe' theories and the goodness of life / Neil A. Manson
  • PART III. IMPROVING NATURE VIA CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY?
  • Improvable nature? / John Hedley Brooke
  • Victims of nature cry out / Leo P. Ten Kate
  • 'Improvable nature?' Some meta-historical reflections / Henk G. Geertsema
  • Is nature neutral? The concept of health / Kris Dierickx
  • Nature good and evil: a theological palette / Philip Hefner
  • Nature good and evil: a theological evaluation / Wessel Stoker
  • Quest for perfection: insights from Paul Tillich / Eduardo R. Cruz
  • Normativity of nature: natural law in a technological life-world / Mathew Illathuparampil
  • Exploring technonature with cyborgs / Anne Kull
  • PART IV. VALUES AS EXPLANATION OR VALUES EXPLAINED?
  • Two forms of explanation / Keith Ward
  • Two forms of explanation: a response to Ward / Martien E. Brinkman
  • Two forms of explanation: a response to Ward / Ronald Meester
  • Evaluation of natural reality: a watertight case? / Edwin Koster
  • 'Ought' in a world that just 'is' / Lindon B. Eaves
  • What values guide our oughts? / Angela Roothaan
  • Normative relevance of disputes in primatology / Tatjana Visak
  • Evolutionary views on the biological basis of religion / Nico M. Van Straalen, Jair Stein
  • On pattern recognition, evolution, epistemology, religion and evil / Mladen Turk.

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