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w Nauce
XLI (2007), 46–55
Justyna HERDA
1. WSTĘP
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S.J Gould, “Rocks of Ages. Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life”, Vintage:
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Magisterium przedstawia dziedzinę, którą obejmuje dany urząd nauczycielski.
Innymi słowy, jest to domena, do której poznawania i wyjaśniania dany urząd na-
uczycielski posiada odpowiednie narzędzia. Por. Gould, 2001, s. 5.
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Gould, 2001, s. 3.
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Tamże, s. 58–59.
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4. ZAKOŃCZENIE
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Za: Ruse, 2006, “A separate peace: Stephen Jay Gould and the limits of tolerance”
<http://www.science-spirit.org/ article detail.php?article id=134> 10.01.2007.
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SUMMARY
S.J. GOULD’S CONCEPTION OF NON-OVERLAPPING
MAGISTERIA
There are many different approaches to the problem of the relation be-
tween science and religion. It is often claimed that there exists a conflict
between those two domains. However, S.J. Gould cannot see neither how the
two enterprises can stay in any conflict nor how they can be reconciled or uni-
fied. He developed a concept of two Non-Overlapping Magisteria (NOMA).
Gould claims that science and religion are characterized by completely dif-
ferent areas of investigation. The two magisteria ask different questions and
provide different explanations. Science investigates the factual character of
the natural world while religion explores the world of values, meanings and
purposes of human life. One could say that this is a reasonable point of view,
but at a closer glance it does not seem to be a satisfactory solution.