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rationality

January 25, 2012

Rational animals: the shift in our response

Definitions of what it means to be human have been sought out for centuries in many academic disciplines, says Kristel Clayville. Theology and philosophy have been at the forefront of this humanistic inquiry, but since Darwin's writing, biology and psychology have posited their own definitions.
September 25, 2009

Rationality and faith need each other, says Williams

The Archbishop of Canterbury says a purely rationalistic and secularist approach to intellectual and academic life has sold short both the meaning of rationality and the broad human values nurtured by critical faith.
June 9, 2009

We need both the rational and the non-rational

Try to imagine a world in which only things acceptable to pure reason are deemed legitimate, suggests Giles Fraser. It would be to imagine the most desperately impoverished cultural and emotional (let alone spiritual) desert.
June 27, 2008

Theology, science and the problem of ID
April 22, 2008

True faith is always asking questions

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century invention, in many ways a response to the rapid social change brought about by modernity and global capitalism, says Giles Fraser. It is a perversion of religion, and in no way the real thing, let alone its 'heartbeat'.
February 5, 2008

Religion is the greatest threat to scientific progress and rationality that we face today - ReThink debates

For: Professor Daniel Dennett, Director, Center for Cognitive Studies Tufts University.
January 30, 2008

Pope says science should serve humanity rather than the other way round

Pope Benedict XVI has told a gathering of academics that science should serve rather than enslave humanity, warning that the reduction of human beings and nature to mere 'objects' is not good for the spirit of reasoned enquiry.