Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498525229 ISBN 13 : 9781498525220

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Patrick J. Deneen is assistant professor of political science at Princeton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498525229
• ISBN 13: 9781498525220
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Éditeur: Lawler Peter Augustine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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