Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lawler, Peter Augustine; Guerra, Marc D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739186503
• Artikelnr.: 44830612

Autorenporträt

Edited by Peter Augustine Lawler and Marc D. Guerra - Contributions by Ronald Bailey; James C. Capretta; J. Daryl Charles; Patrick J. Deneen; William English; Marc D. Guerra; Benjamin Hippen; Adam Keiper; Robert P. Kraynak; Peter Augustine Lawler; Charles

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Observations on American Liberty: My Report from the Front
Peter Augustine Lawler Chapter 1. Pensions and Health Care in an Aging Society
James C. Captretta Chapter 2. The Demographic Challenge to Entitlements: A Comment
Criticism
and Caveat
William English Chapter 3. An Earned Humility: Reflections on Professional Obligations to the Living Kidney Donor
Benjamin Hippen Chapter 4. The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature
Patrick J. Deneen Chapter 5. The Problem with 'Friendly' Artificial Intelligence
Adam Keiper and Ari N. Schulman Chapter 6. The Case for Enhancing People
Ronald Bailey Chapter 7. Justice without Foundations
Robert P. Kraynak Chapter 8. Blame It on My Genotype (if Not My Criminal Brain): Materialist Metaphysics and the Loss of Human Dignity
J. Daryl Charles Chapter 9. Libertarians vs. Liberal Learning
Peter Augustine Lawler Chapter 10. Machine Morality and Human Responsibility
Charles T. Rubin Chapter 11. Tocqueville on Technology
Benjamin Storey Chapter 12. The Place of Liberal Education in Contemporary Higher Education
Marc D. Guerra