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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... inviolable ' or everyday . We can talk with the phil- osopher Charles Taylor about ' strongly ' and ' weakly ' valued goods ( Taylor 1985a , especially essays 1 and 2 ) . Or we can use the language of the market , describing strongly ...
... inviolable , but then often give them up none- theless . Indeed , we often find ourselves in a position where we have to destroy or forgo some great good to save another - it might be said , to put it grandly , that this is an essential ...
... inviolable , we mean , in fact , that they are ' inviolable except as a last resort ' . That is why , as Suzanne Uniacke contends , the question whether life is sacred , is distinct from the question whether it is ever permissible to ...
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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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