Name: Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science) (en Inglés)
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Author: Hunter, James Davison ; Nedelisky, Paul
ISBN: 9780300251821

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Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

James Davison Hunter

Paul Nedelisky

Editorial

Yale University Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

312

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.6x14x2.3 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780300251821

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología sobre la sociedad
Filosofía ética y moral
Religión y ciencia

Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science) (en Inglés)

James Davison Hunter (Autor) · Paul Nedelisky (Autor) · Yale University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science) (en Inglés)"

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. The "new moral science" led by such figures as E. O. Wilson, Patricia Churchland, Sam Harris, Jonathan Haidt, and Joshua Greene is only the newest manifestation of that quest. Though claims for its accomplishments are often wildly exaggerated, this new iteration has been no more successful than its predecessors. But rather than giving up in the face of this failure, the new moral science has taken a surprising turn. Whereas earlier efforts sought to demonstrate what is right and wrong, the new moral scientists have concluded, ironically, that right and wrong don't actually exist. Their (perhaps unwitting) moral nihilism turns the science of morality into a social engineering project. If there is nothing moral for science to discover, the science of morality becomes, at best, a feeble program to achieve arbitrary societal goals. Concise and rigorously argued, Science and the Good is a definitive critique of a would-be science that has gained extraordinary influence in public discourse today and an exposé of that project's darker turn.