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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... religious age ? Does everything - and every life - have its price , or are some things sacrosanct ? Is Nothing Sacred ? is a stimulating and wide - ranging exploration of why and how we should value human life , art , the environment ...
... religion . Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cam- bridge . His books include Essays in Quasi - realism ( 1993 ) , Ruling Passions ( 1998 ) and two bestselling introductions to philosophy , Think ( 1999 ) ...
... religious schools , creationism , and death and dying , to name a few . Many of us who attended the conference found it more than usu- ally stimulating , and we were delighted when Tony Bruce , head of philosophy at Routledge , offered ...
... religions . They do not , for the most part , find they need to make use of religious concepts . They can get on just fine without believing in the divine godhead , the devil , or the existence of supernatural or tran- scendent realms ...
... religious trinkets but not great religious works of art . There are many ways that we can capture the distinction of worth that I am alluding to here . We can describe things , as I have already done , as having ' intrinsic ' or ...
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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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