Natural TheologyOxford University Press, UK, 13 apr 2006 - 342 pagina's In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. This edition reprints the original text of 1802, and sets the book in the context of the theological, philosophical, and scientific debates of the nineteenth century. - ;'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.' In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing the world to a watch, whose design is self-evident, he goes on to provide examples from biology, anatomy, and astronomy in order to demonstrate the intricacy and ingenuity of design that could only come from a wise and benevolent deity. Paley's legalistic approach and skilful use of metaphor and analogy were hugely successful, and equally controversial. Charles Darwin, whose investigations led to very different conclusions in the Origin of Species, was greatly influenced by the book's cumulative structure and accessible style. This edition reprints the original text of 1802, and sets the book in the context of the theological, philosophical, and scientific debates of the nineteenth century. - ;This is an astonishing book, made all the more accessible by some excellent modern footnotes - John Habgood, Church TImes |
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Inhoudsopgave
I State of the Argument | 7 |
II State of the Argument Continued | 11 |
III Application of the Argument | 16 |
IV Of the Succession of Plants and Animals | 32 |
V Application of the Argument Continued | 35 |
VI The Argument Cumulative | 45 |
VII Of the Mechanical and Immechanical Functions of Animals and Vegetables | 47 |
VIII Of Mechanical Arrangement in the Human FrameOf the Bones | 54 |
XVI Compensation | 147 |
XVII The Relation of Animated Bodies to Inanimate Nature | 155 |
XVIII Instincts | 160 |
XIX Of Insects | 170 |
XX Of Plants | 183 |
XXI The Elements | 194 |
XXII Astronomy | 199 |
XXIII Of the Personality of the Deity | 213 |
IX Of the Muscles | 69 |
X Of the Vessels of Animal Bodies | 82 |
XI Of the Animal Structure Regarded as a Mass | 101 |
XII Comparative Anatomy | 114 |
XIII Peculiar Organizations | 129 |
XIV Prospective Contrivances | 135 |
XV Relations | 140 |
XXIV Of the Natural Attributes of the Deity | 230 |
XXV The Unity of the Deity | 234 |
XXVI The Goodness of the Deity | 237 |
XXVII Conclusion | 277 |
Further Reading | 284 |
Explanatory Notes | 294 |
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