Wissenschaft als Weltanschauung. Ernst Haeckels gelöste »Welträtsel« und ihr Text

Grätz, Katharina

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Wissen in Literatur Im 19. Jahrhundert

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Wissenschaft als Weltanschauung. Ernst Haeckels gelöste »Welträtsel« und ihr Text

Katharina Grätz¹

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“…They are considered a mere façon de parler of popular science, an attempt to soften the edges of contingency in nature. Yet while the polemical density of these discourses might have led to the forming of distinct oppositions between science and religion (Grätz 2002), these oppositions mask the fact that natural teleology and even elements of natural theology often genuinely belonged to evolutionary theories themselves.…”

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God-Nature Progressing: Natural Theology in German Monism

Kleeberg

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ArgumentDuring the 1860s Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and one of the foremost popularizers of Darwinism, proposed a natural philosophy called “Monism.” Based on developmental thinking, natural selection, and sound natural laws, the scientific Weltanschauung of Monism was to supersede Christian religion in all its accounts of nature. Haeckel's new scientific religion, this essay argues, fused the religious joys of reveling in the beauty of “mother nature” with the assurance of progress based on scientific certainty. Even though Haeckel and his followers polemicized against dualistic and teleological interpretations of nature, and despite their fierce struggle against the Christian churches, Monism cannot conceal its roots. All central arguments of natural theology reappear – albeit sometimes in causal or reductionist phrasing. Haeckel's aesthetics of nature in particular shows his indebtedness to the concept of a divine economy of nature. His Monism is an evolutionary and pantheistic natural theology.

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