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Value as Optics

Self, Nature, and God in Science-Religion Debate
Veenus Joseph

£74.99

This book explores the genesis of value to create a meeting point for science and religion. Bringing giants like Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, and Taylor into dialogue, it establishes that our disposition to the world is not rationalistic but relational—one of mutual inherence.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the genesis of value in relation to self, nature, and God, promising a meeting point for naturalistic and…
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of the genesis of value in relation to self, nature, and God, promising a meeting point for naturalistic and theistic accounts that facilitates harbouring scientific and religious temperaments.
It is the first of its kind as it delves into the question of the genesis of value, setting it as the anchoring point of dialogue between science and religion. This is also the first work to bring together three methodological approaches to the value question—that of cultural anthropology, phenomenology, and metaphysics—without sacrificing cross-fertilisation at the altar of overspecialisation. It also brings three intellectual giants into dialogue: Alfred North Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, and Charles Taylor.
The book finally establishes that our original disposition to the world is not rationalistic but relational, one of mutual inherence, touching and being-touched, prehending and being prehended, secreting sense and being immersed in sense.
This book will be a good read for those seeking fundamental answers to questions of value and meaning. It will also attract those interested in modernity questions, phenomenology, philosophy of nature and science, process philosophy, and metaphysical thinking.

Veenus Joseph is a Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Society of St Thomas the Apostle (MST). He holds an MA, MPhil and PhD in philosophy from KU (Katholieke Universiteit) Leuven, Belgium. He has taught philosophy at several institutes and colleges across India, including Dharmaram Vidyakshetram in Bengaluru, Nirmala College in Ujjain, and SVD Vidyabhavan in Bhopal. Currently, he serves as the Director of Studies at Ruhalaya College of Philosophy in Ujjain. His research interests include axiology, questions of modernity, science and religion, phenomenology, process philosophy, and political philosophy.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6902-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6902-3
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-30

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HRAM3, HRAB1, HPQ
  • BISAC: PHI022000, PHI013000, PHI018000, REL106000, REL051000, REL067130
  • THEMA: QRAM3, QRAB1, QDTQ
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