2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Die Natur und das Leben: Naturalismus in Weltbildern und als Einstellung zur Biotechnik in der deutschen Bevölkerung
verfasst von : Heiner Meulemann
Erschienen in: Biopolitik
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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Naturalism, the explanation of the world through nature, is a transcendental, religious worldview. How far does it affect the immanent worldview of humans as social
and
as individual beings? This question is dealt with in secondary analyses of surveys representative of the German population. First, a naturalist cosmology has become the dominant worldview at the expense of a Christian worldview; respect for nature enjoys nearly total consensus. Second, naturalism has almost no impact on conceptions of society which legitimize social order and social inequality. Third, naturalism does indeed affect individual understanding insofar as respect for nature correlates with a negative assessment of biotechnology.