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Item Details
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THE MORAL ARC
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| By: |
Michael Shermer |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£21.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0805096914 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780805096910 |
| Publisher: |
HENRY HOLT & COMPANY INC |
| Pub. date: |
20 January, 2015 |
| Pages: |
560 |
| Description: |
Explains 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
includes 83 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Henry Holt & Company Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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