Scientia et Fides (Mar 2018)

La teología como posibilidad fundante de una ciencia más humana

  • María Teresa Gargiulo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2018.008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 285 – 314

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The theology as enabler of a more human sciencePaul Karl Feyerabend conceives religion as a possible way to infuse meaning and humanity to the science. He asserts that when it has taken place historically a unity between science and religion, science has been able to transcend values of utility and efficiency. This happens because the religion confers meaning to scientific results within an image of the world that involves the person as a whole. In this context, the Viennese invites to establish a dialogue with the science of ancient Greece in order to know more about more human ways of doing science and to be able to judge in perspective the achievements of scientific materialism. Our objective in this work will be to attend to this invitation of Viennese studying the relation that exists between mathematics and theology in the Ptolemaic writings. We believe that the Alexandrian is an emblematic case of this communion between science and theology and –in this sense– allows us to rethink contemporary science as a cognitive task more attentive to the human and existential implications of its theories and models.

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