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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... 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 readers will ...
... important things wrong . There are many things , after all , that we don't value according to their capacity to satisfy preferences or promote our happiness . We value them for themselves and want to say that they have an ' intrinsic ...
... important range of goods that we value not by reference to happiness or preference satisfaction , but in themselves . Typically , moreover , we define their value precisely in opposition to these lower goods whose value is a function of ...
... importance ... and things ... of lesser value ' . And these distinctions in turn are , as Taylor has argued , a necessary feature of any ethics we would recognise as human ( Taylor 1985b : 3 ) . It is sometimes suggested that all this ...
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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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