000			01938nam a2200217Ia 4500
999			_c231417 _d231417
005			20211207155331.0
008			200208s9999 xx 000 0 und d
020			_a9781591027744
082			_a201.65 SCH
100			_a"Schlagel, Richard H"
245		0	_aSeeking the truth
260			_aNew York
260			_bHumanity Books
260			_c2010
300			_a518p.
365			_b9000
365			_dRS
520			_aIn this sweeping intellectual history, philosopher Richard H. Schlagel compares the conceptual worldviews of science and religion, their distinct historical origins, their radically different experiential foundations, and their contrasting methods of justification. With great clarity and an impressive command of the historical facts, he depicts Western civilization as a composite of two diverse traditions—the empirical-rationalistic perspective of the ancient Greek philosophers and the mystical-revelatory approach of Judeo-Christian religion. Today, science, the inheritor of the Greek empirical-rationalistic approach, is clearly in the ascendancy. Schlagel shows how and why science has achieved its remarkable success, while religion, still burdened by archaic, static concepts anchored in a vanished past, has experienced more and more cognitive and emotional difficulties accommodating scientific discoveries. Looking to the future, Schlagel argues that scientific inquiry is clearly superior to faith in ancient religious doctrines to cope with the challenges of climate change, energy sources, environmental protection, population increases, and the global economy. He concludes that the health of democratic societies will depend, in large part, on an educated citizenry that appreciates the importance of science and recognizes the retrograde tendencies of the fundamentalist mindset both in the United States and abroad.
650			_aReligion and science-History
942			_cB _2ddc