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EXPLAINING AND VALUING: AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN THEOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES
Author(s) -
Gustafson James M.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1995.tb00061.x
Subject(s) - destiny (iss module) , epistemology , subject matter , subject (documents) , human life , philosophy , human science , sociology , theology , computer science , humanity , pedagogy , physics , astronomy , library science , curriculum
. A comparison of E.O. Wilson's On Human Nature and Abraham Heschel's Who Is Man? introduces a discussion of how descriptions and explanations of the human are related to valuations of the human. More intense comparative analysis focuses on Melvin Konner, The Tangled Wing , and Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man , Similarities of outlook toward life in the world are noted, although the supporting information, concepts, and arguments are radically different. The article illustrates how a subject matter, here the human, that is addressed by different disciplines and methods can yield fruitful interdisciplinary analysis.