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The Roots of Ethics

Science, Religion, and Values

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Callahan

    1. The Hasings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

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  2. H. Tristram Engelhardt

    1. The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA

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Part of the book series: The Hastings Center Series in Ethics (HCSE)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Religion and the Foundations of Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Can Medicine Dispense with a Theological Perspective on Human Nature?

      • Alasdair MacIntyre
      Pages 119-137

    3. Kant’s Moral Theology or A Religious Ethics?

      • Paul Ramsey
      Pages 139-169

    4. A Rejoinder to a Rejoinder

      • Alasdair MacIntyre
      Pages 171-174

    5. Theology and Ethics: An Interpretation of the Agenda

      • James M. Gustafson
      Pages 175-196

    6. Response to James M. Gustafson

      • Hans Jonas
      Pages 197-211

    7. Rejoinder to Hans Jonas

      • James M. Gustafson
      Pages 213-219

  4. Science, Ethics, and Values

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. The Moral Psychology of Science

      • Stephen Toulmin
      Pages 223-242

    3. The Poverty of Scientism and the Promise of Structuralist Ethics

      • Gunther S. Stent
      Pages 243-264

    4. Natural Selection and Societal Laws

      • Richard D. Alexander
      Pages 265-306

    5. Evolution, Social Behavior, and Ethics

      • Richard D. Alexander
      Pages 307-338

    6. Attitudes toward Eugenics in Germany and Soviet Russia in the 1920s: An Examination of Science and Values

      • Loren R. Graham
      Pages 339-369
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About this book

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 and to science. This volume brings together previously published essays that focus on these inter­ relationships and their uncertainties. It offers an attempt to sketch the interrelationship among three major intellectual efforts: determining moral obligations, the ultimate purpose and goals of man and the cosmos, and the nature of empirical reality. Though imperfect, it is an effort to frame the unity of the human condition, which is captured in part by ethics, in part by religion, and in part by the sciences. Put another way, this collection of essays springs from an attempt to see the unity of humans who engage in the diverse roles of valuers, be­ lievers, and knowers, while still remaining single, individual humans.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Hasings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

    Daniel Callahan

  • The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA

    H. Tristram Engelhardt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Roots of Ethics

  • Book Subtitle: Science, Religion, and Values

  • Editors: Daniel Callahan, H. Tristram Engelhardt

  • Series Title: The Hastings Center Series in Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3303-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Hastings Center 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-3305-0Published: 17 February 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-3303-6Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 450

  • Topics: Ethics

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