The Mediating Role of Value in the Dialogue between Science and Religion: A. N. Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, and Charles Taylor

Can man revere faith and scientific progress, hunger for miracles and MRIs? (Time, 2006, Nov. 5). A question like this has haunted us human beings many times in the history of the world. Without doubt, science and religion are at utter odds in the current scenario. In contemporary debates between science and religion, the understandings of nature and of value have great significance. A dialogue can take place exactly at this level of value, using nature as the common ground. In this, the understandings of nature and the status of value; of value in relation to nature, of value in relation to God, and of value in relation to human self, allbecome core issues. Drawing from the new concepts of nature outlined byAlfred North Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty, and relying upon Charles Taylor#s evaluation of the ethics of disengagement I propose a new line of possible dialogue using nature as the common ground and value as the essential link.

Publication year:2021

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