Is Nature Ever Evil? (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Science and Value
Redaktion: Drees, Willem B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Can nature be evil, or ugly, or wrong? Can we apply moral value to nature?
From a compellingly original premise, under the auspices of major thinkers including Mary Midgley, Philip Hefner, Arnold Benz and Keith Ward, Is Nature Ever Evil? examines the value-structure of our cosmos and of the science that seeks to describe it. Science, says editor Willem B. Drees, claims to leave moral questions to aesthetic and religious theory. But the supposed neutrality of the scientific view masks a host of moral assumptions. How does an ethically transparent science arrive at concepts of a 'hostile' universe or a 'selfish' gene? How do botanists, zoologists, cosmologists and geologists respond to the beauty of the universe they study, reliant as it is upon catastrophe, savagery, power and extinction? Then there are various ways in which science seeks to alter and improve nature. What do prosthetics and gene technology, cyborgs and dairy cows say about our appreciation of nature itself? Surely science, in common with philosophy, magic and religion, can aid our understanding of evil in nature - whether as natural catasrophe, disease, predatory cruelty or mere cosmic indifference?
Focusing on the ethical evaluation of nature itself, Is Nature Ever Evil? re-ignites crucial questions of hope, responsibility, and possibility in nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134436699
• Artikelnr.: 38255349

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.