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- Title
EPIPHANY PHILOSOPHERS: AFTERWORD: with Fraser Watts, "Mutual Enhancement between Science and Religion: In the Footsteps of the Epiphany Philosophers"; William H. Beharrell, "Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies"; Marius Dorobantu and Yorick Wilks, "Moral Orthoses: A New Approach to Human and Machine Ethics"; Galen Watts, "Religion, Science, and Disenchantment in Late Modernity"; and Rowan Williams, "Epiphany Philosophers: Afterword."
- Authors
Williams, Rowan
- Abstract
Being a theist makes a difference, but not so much to what propositions we assent to, nor to an expanded ontology of spiritual entities. Rather, it is concerned with what commitments we enter into, and involves a participatory engagement with a broader reality then we might have supposed was possible. Embodied practices are a crucial part of the contemplative path, which draws on the wisdom of the body. This leads on to a "labor of culture." Our present culture is not obviously as secular as supposed to be, but what has now become sacred is a strong sense of the individual ego, around which many ethical and political commitments are built, and which sits uneasily with our widely accepted mechanistic view of life. The crucial challenge to artificial intelligence is whether it can find ways of enhancing the mutual recognition that is crucial to the ethical life.
- Subjects
WILLIAMS, Rowan, 1950-; PHILOSOPHERS; MODERNITY; SPIRITS; DISILLUSIONMENT; RELIGION; ORTHOPEDIC apparatus
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2019, Vol 54, Issue 4, p1036
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zygo.12561