| Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity Contributor(s): Lawler, Peter Augustine (Editor), Guerra, Marc D. (Editor), Bailey, Ronald (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739186493 ISBN-13: 9780739186497 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $124.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Science & Technology Policy - Science | Biotechnology - Social Science |
| Dewey: 303.372 |
| LCCN: 2015028358 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |