Robin Attfield

Wonder, Value and God (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134781645
• Artikelnr.: 45474840

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Wonder and value 2 The nature and location of value 3 Meaning, meaningful
work and spectres of bleakness 4 Worthwhile life and meaning 5 The argument
from value 6 Disvalue 7 Panentheism 8 Morality and value 9 Embodiments of
value in nature and society 10 Creativity and inspiration in art, music,
literature and science 11 Fulfilling our purpose