Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781498525220)

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.

Author: Peter Augustine Lawler
ISBN-10: 1498525229
ISBN-13: 9781498525220
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2016
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d