1st Edition

Teleology and Modernity

Edited By William Gibson, Dan O'Brien, Marius Turda Copyright 2020
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, from individual teleologies to collective ones; ideas put forward... Read more

List of contributors





Introduction



by Dan O’Brien, Marius Turda and William Gibson





Section I: Religion





Chapter 1: ‘We Apply these Tools to our Morals’: Eighteenth-century Freemasonry, A Case Study in Teleology



by Richard Berrman





Chapter 2: Teleologies and Religion in the Eighteenth Century



by William Gibson





Chapter 3: John Wesley and the Teleology of Education



by Linda A. Ryan





Section II: History





Chapter 4: Teleology and Race



by Marius Turda





Chapter 5: Charles Darwin and the Argument for Design



by David Redvaldsen





Chapter 6: Teleology and Jewish Heretical Religiosity: Nietzsche and Rosenzweig



by David Ohana





Section III: Philosophy





Chapter 7: Can the Sciences Do without Final Causes?



by Stephen Boulter





Chapter 8: Hume, Teleology and the ‘Science of Man’



by Lorenzo Greco and Dan O’Brien





Chapter 9: What is the Function of Morality?



by Mark Cain





Chapter 10: Is Intuitive Teleological Reasoning Promiscuous?



by Johan de Smedt and Helen de Cruz





Index

Biography

William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History at Oxford Brookes University.



Dan O’Brien is Reader in Philosophy and Subject Co-ordinator for Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University



Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University.