Title: The moral arc
Description: "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: Science, History, Science, moral and ethical aspects, Science, social aspects, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / History, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Moral and ethical aspects, Social aspects, Science--moral and ethical aspects--history, Science--social aspects--history, Science / philosophy & social aspects, Science / history, Psychology / general, Science--moral and ethical aspects, Science--social aspects, Bj57 .s48 2015, 170.9, Sci075000 sci034000 psy000000