Sign-In
Cart
God, Natural Law and the AI Challenge: A Study of Liturgy, Essentialism and Perception
Paperback
Publisher Price: $20.00
Publisher: Independent Cat
Published: Dec 17 2023
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.54 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Today we very often hear the words that everything in this world is invented by man or depends on man. Many phenomena of this world are considered subjective and dependent on our personal interpretation. What is more, it is claimed that even the very concept of nature is wrong and that, in fact, there is no nature! Everything, such people say, is a social and cultural construction. Nature as such is dismissed. The natural order, the order in the world, is denied.
All this leads to its logical result - faith in God is rejected because where there is no order, there cannot be God. The world is simply a collection of our human fabrications and conventions. Our world is a social construction. All we need is to live according to our desires; to choose the gender we want; to practice relationships that are unnatural and immoral, and so forth. Therefore, the constructivist approach has its implications in practice, and we see them nowadays.
As a counterpoint to this conception, we will turn to the theological doctrine of natural law. According to the latter, the world is regulated by a law established by God. This regulation is intended to help us and the world not fall into a state of chaos. Furthermore, every single thing in this world has its nature, its essence. Although both things are not the same, we can perceive them as demonstrating that there are stable and fixed entities in this world. Man's nature is permanent, at least on earth; genders are permanent; ethnicity and nationality are less permanent and more fluid, but they still can be defined according to objective criteria.
To prove that there is order in the world, we will turn to three central concepts: Logos, or the Word; the Liturgy as a reflection and participation in the divine order and life; and the relation between science and religion as reflecting the essence of the Logos.
The Logos refers to the Greek term word and represents the general principle of divine reason and creative order in the world. Natural law, on the other hand, is the moral law that is accessible to all people through reason. Liturgy refers to the ritual and ceremonial practices of the Church.
The thesis expressed in the current work will defend the reality of God by means of establishing natural law, the dignity of the human person, God's beauty manifested in nature, and the fact that faith goes hand in hand with science. By knowing the world, we will know that God is real- although we can never know His nature perfectly.
Also from
Vento, Anthony T.
The Dynamics of Morality: A Cliodynamic Perspective on Society and Culture
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Pathways to Holiness: In The Footsteps of Saints Benedict and Scholastica
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Green Movements and the Political Landscape: Exploring the Philosophical Dimensions
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Evangelio de la Libertad: Poner fin a la trata de personas en nuestro tiempo
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
The Dignity Debate: Philosophical Perspectives on Patria Potestad in Contemporary Society and Education
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
The Heavens Proclaim the Altar of the Stars: Catholicism and the Ethical Boundaries of Space
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
From the Ivory Tower to the Valley of Shadows, Maritain, von Balthasar, and the Problem of Evil
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
The Illative Imagination Through the Quill of Faith: Literary Paths to God in Newman and Hopkins
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
The Logos Chronicles Exploring Objective Truth and Theological Significance
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Sinful Selves or Sacred Souls: Personality Typologies in Biblical Discourse
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Chains of Shadows, Tears in the Market: Navigating a Way Out of Human Trafficking
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
The Mother`s Tears and Abraham's Dust: Saint Augustine`s Insight on Ash Wednesday
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
The Sacred and the Profane: Navigating the Catholic Influence on the Russian Literary Canon
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
From AI to Omega: Beatitude, Chimerical Free Will and the Divine Arc of Theodicy
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
The Teresian Prism: Refracting Intention, Means and Circumstance in Prayer
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Pathway to Holiness: Inspiring Stories from Catholic Saints, Visionaries, and Exorcists
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Illuminating Universals: Catholic Insights into the Structure of the Universe
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
The Flame Imperishable: Catholicism in the Halls of Middle-earth's History
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Gospel Guidelines for a Digital Economy Cryptocurrency and the Catholic Believer
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
From Field to Faith: Linking Jewish Agricultural Feasts with Catholic Sacraments of Initiation
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
El Corazon de Refugio: Un Enfoque Basado en La Fe Para La Curacion de Trauma
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Eternal City, Eternal Church: Catholicism's Struggle, Survival and Triumph in the Roman Arena
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Pathos as the Synchronicity of Judeo-Christianity and the Dissensusness of Islam
Vento, Anthony T.
Paperback
Also in
Philosophy
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
Williams, Bernard
Paperback
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge
Fixico, Donald Lee
Paperback
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media
Lowenstein, Adam
Paperback
Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Spiritual Freedom and the Re-Animation of Matter
Lafitte, Luke
Paperback
The Sociogony: Social Facts and the Ontology of Objects, Things, and Monsters
Worrell, Mark P.
Paperback
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
Pirsig, Robert M.
Pirsig, Wendy K.
Hardcover
Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
Roudinesco, Elisabeth
Paperback
The New Science of Giambattista Vico: Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the Addition of Practic of the New Science
Vico, Giambattista
Paperback
Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy
Burt, Donald X.
Paperback
The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
Gottlieb, Anthony
Paperback
The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations
Barnes, Jonathan
Julia, Annas
Annas, Julia
Paperback
Essays V2: Moral And Entertaining On The Various Faculties And Passions Of The Human Mind (1815)
Clarendon, Edward Hyde Earl of
Paperback
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Holiday, Ryan
Hanselman, Stephen
Hardcover
The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger
Hardcover
The Obstacle Is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph
Holiday, Ryan
Hardcover
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition: The Global Bestseller
Mackesy, Charlie
Hardcover
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
Paperback
Self-Help from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us about Living
Jones, Peter
Hardcover
The Courage to Be Ordinary: Discover Your Surprising Superpower for a Thriving Life
Kishimi, Ichiro
Paperback
My Big TOE Awakening Discovery Inner Workings: The Complete My Big TOE Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics and Metaphysics
Campbell, Thomas
Hardcover
The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
Easton, Dossie
Hardy, Janet W.
Paperback
Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga
Evola, Julius
Hardcover
Self-Reliance and Nature: The Complete First and Second Series of Emerson's Essays
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Hardcover
Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark: Mysticism, Art, and the Path of Unknowing
Smith, James K. A.
Hardcover