The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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ID19600438
AuthorsMark S Massa (corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages33-49
Publication date2018-08-22
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueStructure of Theological Revolutions (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780190851408.003.0003
OpenAlexW2888084850
ISBN9780190851408
LanguageEN
Citations received491

This chapter presents a more detailed examination of Thomas Kuhn’s structure than that provided in the Introduction. The chapter explains how and why Kuhn’s book permanently rejected the idea of scientific “progress.” The author notes that although most Catholics experienced the widespread critique of Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical as a sudden (if welcome) rejection of the kind of theological argument that the Church had utilized in its moral teaching for several centuries, the cracks in the foundations of that older approach to natural law had appeared considerably before 1968. The emergence of a historicist approach to moral theology in the decades before the promulgation of the encyclical contextualized the rocky reception accorded it within a much larger historical framework. Further, even the guild of moral theologians had come to a much more nuanced understanding of what could be (and what could not be) “unchangeable” in Christian ethics

Encyclical · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Historicism · Natural law · Political science · Promulgation · Sociology · Theology · Classics · Evolution and Science Education · History · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

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