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The End of Heaven - Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age (Hardcover)
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The End of Heaven - Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age (Hardcover)
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In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored
dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain
why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually
makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters
have become technical problems without inherent purpose. When told
of a disaster, we easily feel lost in the steely emptiness of
technical languages of engineering or medicine. Or, in our drive to
pinpoint the source of suffering, we succumb to the hunt for a
scapegoat, possibly inflicting even greater suffering on others
around us. How can we satisfactorily deal with suffering when the
disaster that caused it is no more than the dispassionate sum of
utterly mundane, imperfect human decisions and technical failures?
Broad in its historical sweep and ambition, The End of Heaven is
also Dekker's most personal book to date.
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