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Altogether different explanatory processes are thus at issue in axiological and in purposive explanation, and the ontological requirements of the former are a great deal more modest than those of the latter.
To reach outside the value domain itself to equip value with a purposive explanation that is theological in nature is unnecessary and counterproductive--it complicates rather than simplifies the explanatory process inasmuch as we then cannot avoid the question "Why does the putative creator adopt this purpose?" The response to this question must take the form that he deems (and of course, since it is God that is at issue, rightly deems) to be of value.
It is taken for granted that the adequacy of an account depends on its fitting emotions into purposive explanation of human life.
Earlier natural science was still animistic, holding to divine purposive explanations when natural ones ran out.
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