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The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in scientific
approaches to the study of morality. Once understood to be the
domain of moral psychology, the newer approach to morality is
largely interdisciplinary, driven in no small part by developments
in behavioural economics and evolutionary biology, as well as
advances in neuroscientific imaging capabilities, among other
fields. To date, scientists studying moral cognition and behaviour
have paid little attention to virtue theory, while virtue theorists
have yet to acknowledge the new research results emerging from the
new science of morality. Theology and the Science of Moral Action
explores a new approach to ethical thinking that promotes dialogue
and integration between recent research in the scientific study of
moral cognition and behaviour-including neuroscience, moral
psychology, and behavioural economics-and virtue theoretic
approaches to ethics in both philosophy and theology. More
particularly, the book evaluates the concept of moral exemplarity
and its significance in philosophical and theological ethics as
well as for ongoing research programs in the cognitive sciences.
The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in scientific
approaches to the study of morality. Once understood to be the
domain of moral psychology, the newer approach to morality is
largely interdisciplinary, driven in no small part by developments
in behavioural economics and evolutionary biology, as well as
advances in neuroscientific imaging capabilities, among other
fields. To date, scientists studying moral cognition and behaviour
have paid little attention to virtue theory, while virtue theorists
have yet to acknowledge the new research results emerging from the
new science of morality. Theology and the Science of Morality
explores a new approach to ethical thinking that promotes dialogue
and integration between recent research in the scientific study of
moral cognition and behaviour -- including neuroscience, moral
psychology, and behavioural economics -- and virtue theoretic
approaches to ethics in both philosophy and theology. More
particularly, the book evaluates the concept of moral exemplarity
and its significance in philosophical and theological ethics as
well as for ongoing research programs in the cognitive sciences.
Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory Peterson is on an early
evening walk through the city, suddenly shut down by the
coronavirus pandemic. Manhattan's grand public spaces are bare. The
monumental Lincoln Center Plaza is empty. The sounds of skates on
ice and bustle of tourists and workers at Rockefeller Center are
absent. Not a soul on Easter Sunday at the Cathedral of Saint John
the Divine. Starkly silent, the city is stilled, as no one had ever
seen it before. Travelling on foot and by bike to avoid public
transportation, Peterson took more than 400 photographs of over 200
locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens through the spring and
summer of 2020. Using his iPhone 11, he captured myriad surreal
landmarks - the United Nations Secretariat with no traffic, people,
or flags, Grand Central Terminal without a person or even a car in
sight, as well as gelled neighbourhood streets, churches, shops,
and other tourist destinations. Without people, these photos reveal
the city's primeval soul. They unveil a serene beauty most often
obscured by the frenzy of our fast-paced lives. We see New York
with new eyes.
Despite the many obstacles and challenges that Tiko and Juan face
daily on their new journey, nothing compares to the windstorm that
they are about to encounter. A secret that's been kept for nearly
thirty years about their family has just been revealed. Is the news
enough to shake their foundation of hope?
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