Research Catalog
Science and Christian ethics
- Title
- Science and Christian ethics / Paul Scherz (The Catholic University of America).
- Author
- Scherz, Paul J.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 229 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "There is a growing crisis in scientific research characterized by failures to reproduce experimental results, fraud, lack of innovation, and burn-out. In Science and Christian Ethics, Paul Scherz traces these problems to the drive by governments and business to make scientists into competitive entrepreneurs who use their research results to stimulate economic growth. The result is a competitive environment aimed at commodifying the world. In order to confront this problem of character, Scherz examines the alternative Aristotelian and Stoic models of reforming character, found in the works of Alasdair MacIntyre and Michel Foucault. Against many prominent virtue ethicists, he argues that what individual scientists need is a regime of spiritual exercises, such as those found in Stoicism as it was adopted by Christianity, in order to refocus on the good of truth in the face of institutional pressure. His book illuminates pressing issues in research ethics, moral education, and anthropology."--
- Series Statement
- New studies in Christian ethics ; [38]
- Uniform Title
- New studies in Christian ethics ; 38.
- Subject
- Note
- Series numbering provided by publisher.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The crisis in science -- The scientist entrepreneur -- Teleology and the craft of science -- The practices shaping the entrepreneurial subject -- Reshaping the entrepreneurial subject of science -- Acquiring the virtue of truth-speaking in science -- Subjectivity, truth, and theological anthropology.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11055
- ISBN
- 9781108482202
- 1108482201
- 9781108742580
- 1108742580
- 9781108640459 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018054279
- 40029229329
- OCLC
- 1089258189
- Author
- Scherz, Paul J., author.
- Title
- Science and Christian ethics / Paul Scherz (The Catholic University of America).
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New studies in Christian ethics ; [38]New studies in Christian ethics ; 38.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108640459
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029229329
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11055