Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics, and Love: Toward a New Religion and Science Dialogue
Religion and science dialogues that orbit around rational method, knowledge, and truth are often, though not always, contentious. In this article, I suggest a different cluster of gravitational points around which religion and science dialogues might usefully travel: philosophical anthropology, ethi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Zygon
Year: 2017, Volume: 52, Issue: 3, Pages: 847-863 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Natural sciences
/ Ethics
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B David Hume B Morality B Love B Attachment B Emotion B Charles Darwin B Philosophical Anthropology |
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| Summary: | Religion and science dialogues that orbit around rational method, knowledge, and truth are often, though not always, contentious. In this article, I suggest a different cluster of gravitational points around which religion and science dialogues might usefully travel: philosophical anthropology, ethics, and love. I propose seeing morality as a natural outgrowth of the human desire to establish and maintain social bonds so as not to experience the condition of being alone. Humans, of all animals, need to feel loveddefined as a compassionate present-with in dynamic dyadic relation such that one experiences the sense of matteringbut that need has an equally natural tendency to be met by creating biased us-and-them distinctions. A critical natural ethics, then, is one in which we become aware of and work to undermine our tendency to reify in-group distinctions between us and them. Religious communities that work intentionally on this can be seen, to some extent, as laboratories of loveor as sites for co-creating knowledge in perilous times. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12351 |