书目名称 | The Roots of Ethics | 副标题 | Science, Religion, a | 编辑 | Daniel Callahan,H. Tristram Engelhardt | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | The Hastings Center Series in Ethics | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 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 eng | 出版日期 | Book 1981 | 关键词 | Immanuel Kant; Kant; Religion; ethics; foundation; human knowledge; humans; individual; knowledge; moral phil | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3303-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-3305-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4613-3303-6 | copyright | The Hastings Center 1981 |
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