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Wonder, Value and God.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (205 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781134781645
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 210
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Contents:
Wonder, Value and God- Front Cover -- Wonder, Value and God -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Wonder and value -- Introduction -- Wonder and aesthetic value -- Moore, wonder and the world of nature -- Hepburn on wonder, understanding, consciousness and value -- Theistic wonder -- Spreading a sense of wonder -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The nature and location of value -- Introduction: value and consciousness -- Lars Samuelsson and intrinsic value -- Alan Holland and 'the value option' -- Naturalism and value -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Meaning, meaningful work and spectres of bleakness -- Introduction -- Meaningful work -- Future people and the meaning of life -- Bleakness and its bases -- Heritage value -- Variations on the theme of meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Worthwhile life and meaning -- Introduction -- Worthwhile life -- Meaningful relationships -- Some policy implications -- Brief lives -- Value, detachment and engagement -- Worthwhile lives, meaning and value -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The argument from value -- Introduction: varieties and instances of value -- Relevant kinds of explanation -- The relation of arguments from design to the argument from intrinsic value -- The relation of other kinds of value to the argument from intrinsic value -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Disvalue -- Introduction: disvalues as objections to theistic belief -- Evils ascribable to humanity -- Natural evil and laws of nature -- Natural evil: evolutionary issues -- Natural evils and alternative laws and systems -- Appendix: how satisfactory is this kind of theodicy? -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Panentheism -- Introduction -- Cosmological reasoning, wonder and creation -- Varieties of naturalism -- Peacocke's evocation of Aubrey Moore -- Varieties of panentheism -- Consiliences -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Morality and value -- Introduction.
Morality and value -- Normative stances and their relation to value -- Value, morality and motivation -- The objectivity of moral discourse -- Values and objectivity -- God and morality: another consilience -- Further implications -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Embodiments of value in nature and society -- Introduction -- Values in nature -- Values in culture -- Progress and directionality in science and the humanities -- Progress and directionality in history -- Progress and directionality in nature -- Nature, culture, gardens and their meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Creativity and inspiration in art, music, literature and science -- Introduction: two theories -- Creativity and inspiration -- Creativity: evolved, created, or both? -- Creativity and wonder -- The image of God -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Fulfilling our purpose -- Introduction -- The tradition of theosis -- The coherence of theosis -- Maximus on theosis and attitudes to creation -- On human life having a purpose -- Grounding this view of the role of humanity -- Wonder, value and God -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book relates the value present in the natural world and in human creativity to an underlying purpose which it traces in creation. In integrating the themes of value, creativity and purpose, the book contributes a new synthesis to the literature of philosophy, environmental studies and theology.
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Wonder, Value and God- Front Cover -- Wonder, Value and God -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Wonder and value -- Introduction -- Wonder and aesthetic value -- Moore, wonder and the world of nature -- Hepburn on wonder, understanding, consciousness and value -- Theistic wonder -- Spreading a sense of wonder -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The nature and location of value -- Introduction: value and consciousness -- Lars Samuelsson and intrinsic value -- Alan Holland and 'the value option' -- Naturalism and value -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Meaning, meaningful work and spectres of bleakness -- Introduction -- Meaningful work -- Future people and the meaning of life -- Bleakness and its bases -- Heritage value -- Variations on the theme of meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Worthwhile life and meaning -- Introduction -- Worthwhile life -- Meaningful relationships -- Some policy implications -- Brief lives -- Value, detachment and engagement -- Worthwhile lives, meaning and value -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The argument from value -- Introduction: varieties and instances of value -- Relevant kinds of explanation -- The relation of arguments from design to the argument from intrinsic value -- The relation of other kinds of value to the argument from intrinsic value -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Disvalue -- Introduction: disvalues as objections to theistic belief -- Evils ascribable to humanity -- Natural evil and laws of nature -- Natural evil: evolutionary issues -- Natural evils and alternative laws and systems -- Appendix: how satisfactory is this kind of theodicy? -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Panentheism -- Introduction -- Cosmological reasoning, wonder and creation -- Varieties of naturalism -- Peacocke's evocation of Aubrey Moore -- Varieties of panentheism -- Consiliences -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Morality and value -- Introduction.

Morality and value -- Normative stances and their relation to value -- Value, morality and motivation -- The objectivity of moral discourse -- Values and objectivity -- God and morality: another consilience -- Further implications -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Embodiments of value in nature and society -- Introduction -- Values in nature -- Values in culture -- Progress and directionality in science and the humanities -- Progress and directionality in history -- Progress and directionality in nature -- Nature, culture, gardens and their meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Creativity and inspiration in art, music, literature and science -- Introduction: two theories -- Creativity and inspiration -- Creativity: evolved, created, or both? -- Creativity and wonder -- The image of God -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Fulfilling our purpose -- Introduction -- The tradition of theosis -- The coherence of theosis -- Maximus on theosis and attitudes to creation -- On human life having a purpose -- Grounding this view of the role of humanity -- Wonder, value and God -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book relates the value present in the natural world and in human creativity to an underlying purpose which it traces in creation. In integrating the themes of value, creativity and purpose, the book contributes a new synthesis to the literature of philosophy, environmental studies and theology.

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