Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Peter Augustine Lawler, Marc D. Guerra, Marc D Guerra

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Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville’s prescience on how a “cognitive elite” might be the aristocracy to be most feared in our time; robotization and the possibility of being ruled by morally challenged robots; organ markets; the degradation of liberal education by obsessive techno-enthusiasm; biotechnology and biological determinism; the birth dearth and the inevitable erosion of our entitlements; the possibility that our techno-domination is basically an unfolding of the Lockean logic of our foundation; and the future of the free exercise of religion in an aggressively libertarian time. All in all, this book should provoke widespread discussion about the relationship between scientific/technological progress and the one true moral/spiritual progress that takes place over the course of every particular human life.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-08
Mått158 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor220
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739186497

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