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

Hunter, James Davison; Nedelisky, Paul

 
9780300251821: Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300251823 ISBN 13: 9780300251821
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Davison Hunter is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia. Paul Nedelisky is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300251823
ISBN 13 
9780300251821
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
312
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780300196283: Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0300196288 ISBN 13:  9780300196283
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2019
Hardcover