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The moral arc : how science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice, and freedom
- Title
- The moral arc : how science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice, and freedom / Michael Shermer.
- Author
- Shermer, Michael.
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
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- Description
- 541 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-526) and index.
- Call Number
- JSE 16-172
- ISBN
- 9780805096910 (hardback)
- 0805096914 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014020084
- OCLC
- 881041834
- Author
- Shermer, Michael.
- Title
- The moral arc : how science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice, and freedom / Michael Shermer.
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-526) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 16-172