Mahdi Karimi
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The responsible approach towards the environment and its moral dignity originates from religion and human worldview. Due to the increase in the environmental destruction in the present era, environment has become one of the most important concerns of human kind today. Based on this, the attention to ...
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The responsible approach towards the environment and its moral dignity originates from religion and human worldview. Due to the increase in the environmental destruction in the present era, environment has become one of the most important concerns of human kind today. Based on this, the attention to the environmental ethics and responsibility has been increased. Using the meta-analysis method, this article shows that despite the large amount of research done in this field in Iran, these studies suffer from serious deficiencies. All the reviewed articles between 2018 and 2024 suffer from a kind of research method crisis, so that all of them are descriptive-analytic and compiled with a quantitative approach. As the review of published research shows, there is a kind of methodological, research and philosophical poverty in Iran in the field of environmental ethics and responsibility. This paper suggests that more academic attention is necessary in order to explain the importance of the environment for religions, a philosophical foundation should be established in the domain of value of environmental responsibility, religion and ethics, and appropriate education and legislation should be considered.
somayeh shamsi; mohsen jahed; seyyed esmaeel seyyed hashemy
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Among the various confrontations with the theory of evolution, there are evolutionist theologians who try to introduce theism and evolution together. John F. Haught -the theologian who believes in evolution- considers theology to be a supporter of the theory of evolution and by criticizing traditional ...
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Among the various confrontations with the theory of evolution, there are evolutionist theologians who try to introduce theism and evolution together. John F. Haught -the theologian who believes in evolution- considers theology to be a supporter of the theory of evolution and by criticizing traditional theology, he believes that theology must be updated with science, because otherwise it will be eliminated. In order to plan the coordination and close connection between theology and evolution, Haught presents the theory of "Metaphysics of The Future ", according to which evolution is not only approved by theology, but the only correct explanation that can be given from evolution is the theology oriented to "Metaphysics of The Future". This research examines John F. Haught's criticisms of the philosophical foundations of evolutionist atheists as well as his proposed metaphysics. Haught's most important criticisms of atheists can be seen as criticism of their naturalism, explanatory monism, and scientism, and as well as ignoring the place of "belief" in the foundation of their beliefs. On the other hand, Haught's approaches can also be fundamentally criticized from the point of view of metaphysics on religion, stonewalling on the path of reductionism, unconditional acceptance of Occam's razor rule, hermeneuticism and flawed and disappointing theology.
