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Robin Attfield

Wonder, Value and God

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This book relates the value present in the natural world and in human creativity to an underlying purpose which it traces in creation. It opens by invoking the wonder aroused by nature's value and celebrated by poets, and moves to a cosmic purpose as the best explanation of this value. Natural evils are considered and set in their evolutionary context. Human creativity is later related to inspiration, and to traditional theistic teaching about the purpose of human life. Criticisms of &quote;the value approach&quote; are considered, together with the quest for meaning, and fears that Darwinism undermines it, which are found to be illus… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-134-78164-5
  • EAN: 9781134781645
  • Produktnummer: 20329666
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 186 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 519 KB

Über den Autor


Robin Attfield taught philosophy at Cardiff University full-time from 1968 to 2009 and as a doctoral supervisor from 2009 to 2012. He has been a Professor of Philosophy since 1991. In 2008 he was awarded a DLitt by Cardiff University for contributions to Environmental Philosophy. His nine monographs include Creation, Evolution and Meaning, published by Ashgate in the Transcending Boundaries series in 2006. They also include his best-selling textbook Environmental Ethics (2003 and 2014), hailed by Dieter Birnbacher as the best introduction to the subject so far.

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