SRS 2172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lynn Townsend White Jr., Instrumental And Value Rationality, Anthropocentrism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 2172
• Professor: Anne Vallely

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It shows eden, to corruption, and the outcome. The centre panel shows our greedy, hubris, immoral selves. Before the ood could refer to noah and god choosing to start over. When humanity oversteps themselves there is divine retribution. There is going to be consequences for overstepping our boundaries. We need to nd our place again in the garden . Paul tillich: religion is a state of being grasped by an ultimate concern. Where is god in this, lacks power dynamics, ritual. Spiritual but not religious speak of spirituality rather than religion when trying to express what moves them most deeply. Very linked to the natural environment, nding spirituality within nature. Kant (1804): the world that we know is one we expired through our minds and bodies the phenomenal world. We don"t access to the world as it is in intensely in the noumenual world. The scienti c revolution chipped away at this.