At issue for both biologist Colin Tudge and philosopher Mark Rowlands is the question of responsibility. Two further contributors extend the debate on good and evil to the non-human world. Milbank hits back: when comparing the finite and the infinite, he says, paradox is a powerful tool. Law argues that Milbank’s defence of religion amounts to little more than pseudo-profundity. At root now is the very possibility of good and of evil. This issue sees their Head to Head develop and intensify. Last issue saw philosopher Stephen Law and Anglican theologist John Milbank engage in heated debate about the role of philosophy in the battle between science and religion. Do these concepts really exist? And, if so, are they unique to humans? Or can animals – and even machines – be moral too? At stake in this issue of IAI News is the very possibility of good and evil.
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