Is Nothing Sacred?Ben Mark Rogers Psychology Press, 2004 - 148 страница We call many things sacred, from cows, churches and paintings to flags and burial grounds. Is it still meaningful to talk of things being sacred, or is the idea merely a relic of a bygone religious age? Does everything - and every life - have its price? Is Nothing Sacred? is a stimulating and wide-ranging debate about some of the major moral dilemmas facing us today, such as the value of human life, art, the environment, and personal freedom. |
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... human life , art , the environment and personal freedom . In a series of lucid but controversial essays , leading philosophers debate whether there is a right to die , whether we should preserve the giant California redwoods , cherish ...
... human skulls and important fossils . At the very least , many of these writers worry that viewing everything on a level as uniformly profane , perhaps , or at least secular would represent a real impoverishment in moral outlook . - As ...
... humans by reference to these highly valued things . I think less of someone , and would think less of myself , were I persuaded that his , her , my preferences and ethical judgements failed to honour those things I think intrinsically ...
... human ( Taylor 1985b : 3 ) . It is sometimes suggested that all this talk of sacred objects and sacrosanct ... humanity's tragic pre- dicament . We give up some degree of freedom for security , or make choices between demands of family ...
... religious as well as religious meanings . Even among these , however , there are differences of approach . Richard Norman , while allowing that human life is sacred , denies that nature can be . And Alan Howarth doesn't Introduction 5.
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Nature Science and the Sacred | 7 |
Is Nature Sacred? Response to Richard Norman | 28 |
Is Art Sacred? | 42 |
Art and the Limitations of Experience Response to Nigel Warburton | 51 |
Is Life Sacred? | 59 |
The Sacred and the Profane Response to Suzanne Uniacke | 81 |
Is Liberty Sacred? | 93 |
The Limits of Liberty A response to Alan Haworth | 111 |
The Idea of the Sacred | 119 |
Salvaging the Sacred | 128 |
The Sacred and the Scientist | 135 |
The Concept of the Sacred A Response to My Critics | 138 |
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