Edinburgh University Lectures: Peter Harrison on The Territories of Science and Religion

Showcased by Admin on June 18, 2011. Posted in Academic, Philosophy, Video

Only in the past few hundred years have religious beliefs and activities been bounded by a common notion ‘religion’ and set apart from the ‘non-religious’ or secular domains of human existence. The idea of natural sciences as discrete activities conducted in isolation from religious and moral concerns is even more recent, dating from the nineteenth century. Both categories, ‘religion’ and ‘science’, distort what they claim to represent.

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