The Death of Metaphysics; The Death of Culture

Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-90-481-7155-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 280 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Reihe: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture

The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In each case, the focus is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding. Prime among the issues at stake are the meaning and significance of birth, copulation, suffering, and death, expressed in debates regarding human embryo-experimentation and stem cell research, the character of moral and scientific norms, as well as more fundamentally, the character of an adequate epistemology for coming to appreciate the deep nature of reality and its normative implications. Given varying background ontological, epistemological, and axiological presuppositions, different moral positions and political objections will appear as not merely morally permissible but as socially and politically obligatory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cherry, Mark J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Metaphysics and epistemology: the foundations of culture and morality.- A ccepting God's Offer of Personal Communion in the Words and Deeds of Christ, Handed on in the Body of Christ, His Church.- Whose Nature? Natural Law in a Pluralistic World.- Intellectual Virtues and the Prospects of A Christian Epistemology.- God Manifested in God's Works: The Knowledge of God in the Reformed Tradition.- Holy Knowing: A Wesleyan Epistemology.- Cultural variations and moral casuistry.- Subversive Natural Law: MacIntyre and African-American Thought.- Is there a Distinctive American Version of Natural Law?.- Why did the Principle of Double Effect Appear in the West?.- Applications and criticisms.- How much Guidance can a Secular Natural Law Ethic Offer? A Study of Basic Human Goods in Ethical Decision-Making.- On Women's Health Care: In Search of Nature and Norms.- Toward an Inclusive Epistemology.- A moral culture without metaphysics is empty.- Using Natural Law to Guide Public Morality: The Blind Leading the Deaf.- Ethical Life and the Natural Law: Hegel and the Limits of Morality.