Wonder, Value and God (Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy by Robin Attfield

By Robin Attfield

This publication relates the worth found in the flora and fauna and in human creativity to an underlying function which it strains in production. It opens by way of invoking the sweetness aroused by means of nature's price and celebrated via poets, and strikes to a cosmic goal because the most sensible clarification of this price. average evils are thought of and set of their evolutionary context. Human creativity is later on the topic of proposal, and to standard theistic instructing in regards to the goal of human existence. Criticisms of "the price process" are thought of, including the hunt for that means, and fears that Darwinism undermines it, that are came across to be illusory. New flooring is damaged via this reaction to the spectre of bleakness. The author's past reports of significant paintings are utilized to the query of the character of a helpful existence and life's that means. whereas the world's worth is argued to indicate to construction by means of a transcendent lover of price, humans are proven to have the ability to augmenting that price via their creativity (not least via actions reminiscent of craftsmanship and gardening). In integrating the subjects of worth, creativity and objective, the booklet contributes a brand new synthesis to the literature of philosophy, environmental stories and theology.

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