Bibframe Work

"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 by the French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau and the Scottish philosopher David Hume, by the Anglican theologian and founder of Methodism, John Wesley, and the English naturalist Charles Darwin; it criss-crosses intellectually and conceptually from a discussion of morality to that of the sacralisation of politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Table Of Contents

"We apply these tools to our morals": eighteenth-century Freemasonry, a case study in teleology / Richard Berrman

Teleologies and religion in the eighteenth century / William Gibson

John Wesley and the teleology of education / Linda A. Ryan

Teleology and race / Marius Turda

Charles Darwin and the argument for design / David Redvaldsen

Teleology and Jewish heretical religiosity: Nietzsche and Rosenzweig / David Ohana

Can the sciences do without final causes? / Stephen Boulter

Hume, teleology and the "science of man" / Lorenzo Greco and Dan O'Brien

What is the function of morality? / Mark Cain

Is intuitive teleological reasoning promiscuous? / Johan de Smedt and Helen de Cruz

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