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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Hunter, James Davison, 1955- (Author), Nedelisky, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press : Templeton Press, [2018]
Series:Foundational questions in science.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Science.
Science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Right and wrong.
Ethics
Science
Morale.
Sciences.
Sciences > Aspect moral.
Rectitude.
ethics (philosophy)
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Right and wrong
Science > Moral and ethical aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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