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The Roots of Ethics. Science, Religion, and Values.
Sidney . Ed(S): Callahan
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Description for The Roots of Ethics. Science, Religion, and Values.
Paperback. Editor(s): Callahan, Sidney. Series: The Hastings Center Series in Ethics. Num Pages: 450 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 712.
OUR AGE IS CHARACTERIZED by an uncertainty about the na ture of moral obligations, about what one can hope for in an afterlife, and about the limits of human knowledge. These uncertainties were captured by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, where he noted three basic human questions: what can we know, what ought we to do, and what can we hope for. Those questions and the uncer tainties about their answers still in great part define our cultural per spective. In particular, we are not clear about the foundations of ethics, or about their relationship to religion ... Read more
OUR AGE IS CHARACTERIZED by an uncertainty about the na ture of moral obligations, about what one can hope for in an afterlife, and about the limits of human knowledge. These uncertainties were captured by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, where he noted three basic human questions: what can we know, what ought we to do, and what can we hope for. Those questions and the uncer tainties about their answers still in great part define our cultural per spective. In particular, we are not clear about the foundations of ethics, or about their relationship to religion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
Series
The Hastings Center Series in Ethics
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461333050
SKU
V9781461333050
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