Author: Cameron Wybrow
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773492073
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This volume provides a concise introduction to Foster's life and thought, by means of a biographical essay and a complete bibliography of Foster's published work. It contains unabridged reprints of the seven Foster articles (including the classic Mind trio) which are most concerned with the relations between religion and science.
Creation, Nature, and Political Order in the Philosophy of Michael Foster (1903-1959)
Author: Cameron Wybrow
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773492073
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This volume provides a concise introduction to Foster's life and thought, by means of a biographical essay and a complete bibliography of Foster's published work. It contains unabridged reprints of the seven Foster articles (including the classic Mind trio) which are most concerned with the relations between religion and science.
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773492073
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This volume provides a concise introduction to Foster's life and thought, by means of a biographical essay and a complete bibliography of Foster's published work. It contains unabridged reprints of the seven Foster articles (including the classic Mind trio) which are most concerned with the relations between religion and science.
Collected Works of George Grant: 1951-1959
Author: George Parkin Grant
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802007636
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
A collection of all the important material from the 1950s when philosopher Geroge Grant did his first teaching and writing at Dalhousie University.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802007636
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
A collection of all the important material from the 1950s when philosopher Geroge Grant did his first teaching and writing at Dalhousie University.
Reconstructing Nature
Author: John Hedley Brooke
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567087256
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Templeton Foundation Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology and Natural Sciences John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor discuss exciting developments in the sciences, whether in Big Bang cosmology, chaos theory or genetic engineering, in relation to moral and spiritual questions. Contemporary discussion can, however, be blind if it ignores previous forms of engagement between science and religion. In their Gifford Lectures the authors argue that not one but several historical approaches are required to achieve critical perspective and balanced understanding. Accordingly, each chapter demonstrates the value of a particular historical method. Ranging from alchemy to new-age philosophies, from the Galileo affair to the Darwinian controversies, this is an indispensable and highly accessible book for all interested in science and religion.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567087256
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Templeton Foundation Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology and Natural Sciences John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor discuss exciting developments in the sciences, whether in Big Bang cosmology, chaos theory or genetic engineering, in relation to moral and spiritual questions. Contemporary discussion can, however, be blind if it ignores previous forms of engagement between science and religion. In their Gifford Lectures the authors argue that not one but several historical approaches are required to achieve critical perspective and balanced understanding. Accordingly, each chapter demonstrates the value of a particular historical method. Ranging from alchemy to new-age philosophies, from the Galileo affair to the Darwinian controversies, this is an indispensable and highly accessible book for all interested in science and religion.
Politics and Eternity: Studies in the History of Medieval and Early-Modern Political Thought
Author: Francis Oakley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004452745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book is composed of a series of studies in the history of political thought from late antiquity to the early-eighteenth century. They range broadly across theories of kingship, political theology, constitutional ideas, natural-law thinking, and consent theory.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004452745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book is composed of a series of studies in the history of political thought from late antiquity to the early-eighteenth century. They range broadly across theories of kingship, political theology, constitutional ideas, natural-law thinking, and consent theory.
Curing the Philosopher's Disease
Author: Richard H. Jones
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761848118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Curing the Philosopher's Disease is a philosophical examination of the mysteries surrounding the foundations of science, philosophy, and religion. Much of Western philosophy and science is discussed in order to see our epistemological and metaphysical situation. The love/hate relation philosophers have with mystery is explored, as are the contributions of reductionists and antireductionists, postmodern relativists and critical realists, naturalists and the religious, and theologians and mystics. The thrust of the arguments affirms that there are limits to what philosophy, science, religion, and mystical experiences can tell us about reality. By acknowledging that some questions may be unanswerable and understanding the importance of that fact even as the answers remain ambiguous, our true situation in the world is revealed. Mystery should be reinstated as a basic feature when we reflect upon the nature of what we know and who we are. Mystery frames all of our claims to fundamental knowledge, and we must accept that it will remain a permanent fixture. Thus, the importance of mystery needs to be reaffirmed today, during an era when the fullness of reality is often ignored.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761848118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Curing the Philosopher's Disease is a philosophical examination of the mysteries surrounding the foundations of science, philosophy, and religion. Much of Western philosophy and science is discussed in order to see our epistemological and metaphysical situation. The love/hate relation philosophers have with mystery is explored, as are the contributions of reductionists and antireductionists, postmodern relativists and critical realists, naturalists and the religious, and theologians and mystics. The thrust of the arguments affirms that there are limits to what philosophy, science, religion, and mystical experiences can tell us about reality. By acknowledging that some questions may be unanswerable and understanding the importance of that fact even as the answers remain ambiguous, our true situation in the world is revealed. Mystery should be reinstated as a basic feature when we reflect upon the nature of what we know and who we are. Mystery frames all of our claims to fundamental knowledge, and we must accept that it will remain a permanent fixture. Thus, the importance of mystery needs to be reaffirmed today, during an era when the fullness of reality is often ignored.
Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective
Author: David N. Livingstone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019535396X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, evangelicals often took their place among prominent practicing scientists, and their perspectives exerted a considerable impact on the development of modern western science. Over the last century, however, evangelical scientists have become less visible, even as the focus of evangelical engagement has shifted to political and cultural spheres. Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective offers the first wide-ranging survey of the history of the encounter between evangelical Protestantism and science. Comprising papers by leading historians of science and religion, this collection shows that the questions of science have been central to the history of evangelicalism in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada. It will be an invaluable resource for understanding the historical context of contemporary political squabbles, such as the debate over the status of creation science and the teaching of evolution.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019535396X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, evangelicals often took their place among prominent practicing scientists, and their perspectives exerted a considerable impact on the development of modern western science. Over the last century, however, evangelical scientists have become less visible, even as the focus of evangelical engagement has shifted to political and cultural spheres. Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective offers the first wide-ranging survey of the history of the encounter between evangelical Protestantism and science. Comprising papers by leading historians of science and religion, this collection shows that the questions of science have been central to the history of evangelicalism in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada. It will be an invaluable resource for understanding the historical context of contemporary political squabbles, such as the debate over the status of creation science and the teaching of evolution.
Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights
Author: Francis Oakley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441133313
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 The existence and grounding of human or natural rights is a heavily contested issue today, not only in the West but in the debates raging between "fundamentalists" and "liberals" or "modernists in the Islamic world. So, too, are the revised versions of natural law espoused by thinkers such as John Finnis and Robert George. This book focuses on three bodies of theory that developed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries: (1) the foundational belief in the existence of a moral/juridical natural law, embodying universal norms of right and wrong and accessible to natural human reason; (2) the understanding of (scientific) uniformities of nature as divinely imposed laws, which rose to prominence in the seventeenth century; and (3), finally, the notion that individuals are bearers of inalienable natural or human rights. While seen today as distinct bodies of theory often locked in mutual conflict, they grew up inextricably intertwines. The book argues that they cannot be properly understood if taken each in isolation from the others.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441133313
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 The existence and grounding of human or natural rights is a heavily contested issue today, not only in the West but in the debates raging between "fundamentalists" and "liberals" or "modernists in the Islamic world. So, too, are the revised versions of natural law espoused by thinkers such as John Finnis and Robert George. This book focuses on three bodies of theory that developed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries: (1) the foundational belief in the existence of a moral/juridical natural law, embodying universal norms of right and wrong and accessible to natural human reason; (2) the understanding of (scientific) uniformities of nature as divinely imposed laws, which rose to prominence in the seventeenth century; and (3), finally, the notion that individuals are bearers of inalienable natural or human rights. While seen today as distinct bodies of theory often locked in mutual conflict, they grew up inextricably intertwines. The book argues that they cannot be properly understood if taken each in isolation from the others.
Human Rights, Virtue, and the Common Good
Author: Ernest L. Fortin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847682799
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Volume Three of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays discusses the current state of Christianity--especially twentieth-century Catholic Christianity--and the problems with which it has had to wrestle in the midst of rapid scientific progress, profound social change, and growing moral anarchy. In this volume, Fortin discusses such topics as Christianity and the liberal democratic ethos; Christianity, science, and the arts; Ancients and Moderns; papal social thought; virtue and liberalism; pagan and Christian virtue; and the American Catholic church and politics.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847682799
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Volume Three of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays discusses the current state of Christianity--especially twentieth-century Catholic Christianity--and the problems with which it has had to wrestle in the midst of rapid scientific progress, profound social change, and growing moral anarchy. In this volume, Fortin discusses such topics as Christianity and the liberal democratic ethos; Christianity, science, and the arts; Ancients and Moderns; papal social thought; virtue and liberalism; pagan and Christian virtue; and the American Catholic church and politics.
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers
Author: Stuart Brown
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441192417
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
This is a two-volume work with entries on individuals who made some contribution to philosophy in the period 1900 to 1960 or soon after. The entries deal with the whole philosophical work of an individual or, in the case of philosophers still living, their whole work to date. Typically the individuals included have been born by 1935 and by now have made their main contributions. Contributions to the subject typically take the form of books or journal articles, but influential teachers and people otherwise important in the world of philosophy may also be included. The dictionary includes amateurs as well as professional philosophers and, where appropriate, thinkers whose main discipline was outside philosophy. There are special problems about the term "British" in the twentieth century, partly because of human migration, partly because of decolonialization and the changing denotation of the term. The intention has been to include not only those who were British subjects at least for a significant part of their lives (even if they mostly lived outside what is now the U.K.) but also people who spent a significant part of their lives in Britain itself, irrespective of their nationality or country of origin. In the first category are included, for instance, a number of people who were born and educated in Britain but who subsequently taught in universities abroad. In the second category are included those who were born elsewhere but who came to Britain and contributed to its philosophical culture.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441192417
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
This is a two-volume work with entries on individuals who made some contribution to philosophy in the period 1900 to 1960 or soon after. The entries deal with the whole philosophical work of an individual or, in the case of philosophers still living, their whole work to date. Typically the individuals included have been born by 1935 and by now have made their main contributions. Contributions to the subject typically take the form of books or journal articles, but influential teachers and people otherwise important in the world of philosophy may also be included. The dictionary includes amateurs as well as professional philosophers and, where appropriate, thinkers whose main discipline was outside philosophy. There are special problems about the term "British" in the twentieth century, partly because of human migration, partly because of decolonialization and the changing denotation of the term. The intention has been to include not only those who were British subjects at least for a significant part of their lives (even if they mostly lived outside what is now the U.K.) but also people who spent a significant part of their lives in Britain itself, irrespective of their nationality or country of origin. In the first category are included, for instance, a number of people who were born and educated in Britain but who subsequently taught in universities abroad. In the second category are included those who were born elsewhere but who came to Britain and contributed to its philosophical culture.
Time and Archaeology
Author: Tim Murray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134828632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors, which combine theoretical and empirical material. They illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134828632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors, which combine theoretical and empirical material. They illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to time.