To: betty boop
I have been reading and thinking about a book called "The Encounter of man and nature" by Uh-oh a guy named Seyyed Hossein Nasr from a series of lectures at Columbia? NYU?
Don't have it in hand now. His basic thesis is that the scientific view of the world has profaned us and the world by making it so that if we have no use for something, we ignore or destroy it. He touches on Christian and Islamic philosophy, but only as checkpoint type things, not as a basis. I still have half to go, it is highly recommended.
Science looks at things through rose-colored glasses. Then, it has the audacity to state that there is no such thing as "green". Nasr flatly states science is and can be only a part of the total solution.
51 posted on
08/03/2003 12:05:49 PM PDT by
djf
To: djf
Am going to buy Nasr's book! Thanks for the recommendation, djf.
109 posted on
08/04/2003 9:36:53 AM PDT by
betty boop
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