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Science and the good : the tragic quest for the foundations of morality /

Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hunter, James Davison, 1955- (Autor), Nedelisky, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press : Templeton Press, [2018]
Colección:Foundational questions in science.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Our Promethean longing
  • Early formulations
  • Three schools of enlightenment thinking: and one lingering and disturbing worry
  • The new synthesis
  • What has science found?
  • The proclivity to overreach
  • Intractable challenges
  • The quest, redirected
  • The Promethean temptation: and the problem of unintended consequences