Contemporary American life is tinged with dissatisfaction.
Increased wealth and comfort and technological advances have not
made individuals happier or society more companionable. Today
Americans marry later or not at all, and they fail at marriage as
often as they succeed. Man and Nature in God is a story of
contemporary American decadence, a grim tale of our flagging
relation to nature, a tale confirmed at the center of our sexual
lives. Sandelands grounds his critique in a modern philosophical
error. We have conflated a particular metaphysical outlook--the
subjective standpoint of science--with our relationship, as humans,
to nature. We fail to see that however much we may learn about
nature by treating it as object to our subject, we cannot in this
way learn what we most want and most need to know about nature and
about ourselves. Answers to such questions as "How are we related
to nature?" and "How are we to think and act truly in nature"
continue to elude us.
Cast as ideology by the "isms" of humanism, naturalism, and
postmodernism, today's subjective standpoint has turned the
question of truth into one question of politics. The unhappy result
has been and continues to be a profound and deadly misunderstanding
of nature as well as man, epitomized in contemporary American
culture today. Taking this as his starting point, Sandelands
suggests how we can save ourselves from our mortifying
philosophical error, thereby claiming our true relation to nature,
and reinvigorating our sexual lives. He identifies the need for a
natural philosophy that takes God to be the starting point of
self-understanding.
Although the book is about philosophy, it is not only for the
academic philosopher. Although it is about theology, it is not only
for the theologian or student of religion. And although the book
takes modern biological and social sciences to task, it is not only
for biological and social scientists. Instead, "Man and Nature in
God" is for everyone concerned about the dismal state of cultural
life in America today.
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