Burnet, Kant and physical theology About a book by S. J. Gould on science and religion
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The article takes into consideration some aspects of S. J. Gould’s thought. It evaluates positively the scope of the so-called “non-superposable magistries” principle and his critical stance on the alleged irreconcilability between science and faith, despite the absence in Gould’s thought of philosophy as a mediating instance between science and faith. In connection with these questions the article shows some ideas taken from the history of science, in particular Thomas Burnet’s concordism, the emerging new natural theology called physico-theology, and Kant’s acute critique of this new theology, so typical of scientific and christian culture of seventeenth-century England.
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