Name: The Fall of man and the Foundations of Science
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Author: Peter Harrison
ISBN: 9780521875592

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The Fall of man and the Foundations of Science

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Peter Harrison

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

316

Format

Hardcover

Weight

ISBN

0521875595

ISBN13

9780521875592

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Synopsis "The Fall of man and the Foundations of Science "

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he suggests, were originally devised as techniques for ameliorating the cognitive damage wrought by human sin. At its inception, modern science was conceptualized as a means of recapturing the knowledge of nature that Adam had once possessed. Contrary to a widespread view that sees science emerging in conflict with religion, Harrison argues that theological considerations were of vital importance in the framing of the scientific method.

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