Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2015
Editors:	Peter Augustine Lawler • Marc D. Guerra
Contributors:	Ronald Bailey • James C. Capretta • J.Daryl Charles • Patrick J. Deneen • William English • Marc D. Guerra • Benjamin Hippen • Adam Keiper
Dimensions:	236 x 158 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-8649-7
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Biochemical engineering > Biotechnology > General
LSN:	0-7391-8649-3
Barcode:	9780739186497

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