{"product_id":"the-death-of-metaphysics-the-mark-j-cherry-9781402046209","title":"The Death of Metaphysics; The Death of Culture: Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In each case, the focus is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding. Prime among the issues at stake are the meaning and significance of birth, copulation, suffering, and death, expressed in debates regarding human embryo-experimentation and stem cell research, the character of moral and scientific norms, as well as more fundamentally, the character of an adequate epistemology for coming to appreciate the deep nature of reality and its normative implications. Given varying background ontological, epistemological, and axiological presuppositions, different moral positions and political objections will appear as not merely morally permissible but as socially and politically obligatory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark J. Cherry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1402046200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781402046209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Mark J. Cherry","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424307888383,"sku":"9781402046209","price":169.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5381629-2c5f-43a1-954e-46ea3124216b.jpg?v=1761529486","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-death-of-metaphysics-the-mark-j-cherry-9781402046209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}