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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.
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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