Developments in twentieth-century science upended the classical Newtonian paradigm that posited a mechanistic universe of atomized entities, regular forces, and natural laws. Trajectories in quantum, biological and cosmic sciences began to indicate instead a paradigm of entanglement and relativity. Religious ethicists and theologians, especially feminists, have interpreted the new model by adopting “interdependence” as a relational-ontological symbol. What are the implications of this move for religious ethics? I consider a selection of representative works that ascribe normative value to quanto-bio-cosmic ontological interdependence. The contemporary scientific paradigm affirms feminist and liberationist relational ontologies, but the attempt to synthesize an “ethico-onto-epistemology” from natural processes inevitably runs up against the fact/value distinction as well as ethical ambiguities intrinsic to natural interdependence. These issues must be addressed if interdependence is to survive as a theological ethical symbol.

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怪异、海海绵、星尘和神圣

二十世纪科学的发展颠覆了经典的牛顿范式，该范式假设了一个由原子化实体、规则力和自然法则组成的机械宇宙。量子、生物和宇宙科学的轨迹开始表明纠缠和相对论的范式。宗教伦理学家和神学家，尤其是女权主义者，通过采用“相互依赖”作为关系本体论符号来解释新模型。此举对宗教伦理有何影响？我考虑了一些代表作品的选择，这些作品将规范价值归因于量子-生物-宇宙本体论的相互依存关系。当代科学范式肯定了女权主义和解放主义的关系本体论，但是，从自然过程中综合出“伦理到认识论”的尝试不可避免地遇到了事实/价值区分以及自然相互依赖所固有的伦理歧义。如果相互依存要作为神学伦理符号继续存在，就必须解决这些问题。