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Man and Nature in God (Paperback)
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Man and Nature in God (Paperback)
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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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