The Ontologies of Science and Religion

• Authors: Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode

Abstracts

EN

Preview: Science and religion are complex cultural phenomena, which bear on our understanding of the world, life, consciousness, agency, morality, as well as all other fundamental issues human beings puzzle over. There exists a longstanding question about whether science and religion, and the responses they offer to these issues, are complementary or in conflict. The conflict narrative, championed for example by the New Atheists, emphasizes discrepancies between scientific and religious explanations and typically advances methodological, ethical, and ontological naturalism as providing us with the only adequate means of addressing the big questions humanity faces. The complementarity narrative, without denying the advances of the natural sciences, tends to take the view that it is possible to retain elements of a religious worldview alongside the discoveries of natural science. A traditional focus in the European context has been on the viability of certain ethical ideas whose original justification was arguably based in Christianity, such as human dignity, moral equality, and the centrality of humility, compassion and sacrifice.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1-3

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode

• Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

• https://orcid.org/0000000203543241

Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2023.0020

Biblioteka Nauki

22446415