Michael Shermer - The Moral Arc How Science Makes Us Better Peo
| Schrijver: | Michael Shermer |
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| Titel: | The Moral Arc How Science Makes Us Better People |
| ISBN: | 9781250081322 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Griffin |
| Bijzonderheden: | Redelijk, Paperback, 541p |
| Prijs: | € 12,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy. In this provocative and compelling book, Shermer will explain how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism-scientific ways of thinking-have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.
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