Nature's End: The Theological Meaning of the New Genetics (Religion and Contemporary Culture) - Softcover

Sherlock, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933859393 ISBN 13: 9781933859392

Verlag: ISI Books, 2010

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"Sherlock addresses a provocative question about new developments in genetic research: How can one make moral judgments regarding the moral properiety of changing human nature based on nontheologically informed conceptions of human nature? His book should be carefully read by scientists, ethicists, policymakers, and the general public."---Arthur J. Dyck Research Professor of Ethics, Harvard Divinity School

This idea that nature is the ultimate standard of our actions is fundamental to the Western moral tradition, found in writers as different as Aristotle, Hume, Hobbes, and Darwin. But in an age of rapid changes brought on by biotechnologies such as stem-cell reserach, gene therapy, and mood-altering drugs, can human nature still serve as a basis for our moral thinking?

Now that we can alter human nature, contends Richard Sherlock in this provocative new book, we must find a transnatural standpoint from which to make moral judgments---that is, a theological standpoint. In Nature's End, Sherlock argues that responses based on pragmatism or arguments from nature, including natural-law arguments, are not enough. "In a profound way," he writes, "theology trumps biology as it does philosophy and every other purely human study."Theology is now---as it once was---"the queen of the sciences."

Nature's End boldly reclaims an older view of the purpose of human studies and inventiveness---showing that nothing less will meet our deepest moral challenges or answer our most fundamental questions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Richard Sherlock is Professor of Philosophy at Utah State University. He is the author of numerous chapters, articles, and book reviews in bioethics, biotechnology, philosophical theology, and religious history, among other fields. And he is the author or editor of five other books, including a major textbook, Ethical Issues in Biotechnology (coeditor), and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Mormonism (coeditor).

Richard Sherlock, professor of philosophy at Utah State University, is the author or editor of several books, including a major textbook, Ethical issues in Biotechnology. With advanced training in theology, ethics, and philosophy at Harvard, he has written extensively on bioethics, biotechnology, philosophical theology, and religious history.

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• Verlag: ISI Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1933859393
• ISBN 13: 9781933859392
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230
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