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Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Bailey, Ronald
Lawler, Peter Augustine
Guerra, Marc D.

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BiologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1498525229
ISBN13: 9781498525220
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 14 2016
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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