The Roots of Ethics by Daniel Callahan
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.-
Darwin, Marx and Freud
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In Search of Equity
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Applying the Humanities
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Abortion: Understanding Differences
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Ethics Teaching in Higher Education
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Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis
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Representation and Responsibility
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Violence and the Politics of Research
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Ethics in Hard Times
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Mental Retardation and Sterilization
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Who Speaks for the Child?
Daniel Callahan is president emeritus and cofounder of The Hastings Center, which focuses on ethical and policy issues. He has published seventeen volumes, including Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System (2009), Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice (2006); and What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative (2006).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781461333050 |
| ISBN 10 | 1461333059 |
| Title | The Roots of Ethics |
| Author | Daniel Callahan |
| Series | The Hastings Center Series In Ethics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2013-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 450 |
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