03804nam 22007694a 450 991097145290332120251116204144.01-280-05271-61-134-43670-X0-415-29060-00-203-39817-31-134-43669-610.4324/9780203398173 (CKB)1000000000443517(SSID)ssj0000300555(PQKBManifestationID)11226201(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300555(PQKBWorkID)10259205(PQKB)10947617(SSID)ssj0000376748(PQKBManifestationID)11298237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000376748(PQKBWorkID)10337029(PQKB)11423160(MiAaPQ)EBC180852(Au-PeEL)EBL180852(CaPaEBR)ebr10099650(CaONFJC)MIL5271(OCoLC)437084127(OCoLC)56366060(BIP)46121384(BIP)7857680(EXLCZ)99100000000044351720020625d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIs nature ever evil? religion, science, and value /edited by Willem B. DreesLondon ;New York Routledge2003xv, 341 p. illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-415-29061-9 0-203-39985-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Nature, science and value -- pt. 2. Evil evolutionary justified? -- pt. 3. Improving nature via culture and technology? -- pt. 4. Values as explanation or values explained?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.Philosophy of natureNatureMoral and ethical aspectsScienceMoral and ethical aspectsNatureReligious aspectsChristianityChristian ethicsPhilosophy of nature.NatureMoral and ethical aspects.ScienceMoral and ethical aspects.NatureReligious aspectsChristianity.Christian ethics.111/.84Drees Willem B.1954-879120MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971452903321Is nature ever evil4475977UNINA