MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02298cam a2200349 i 4500
001 2014020084
003 DLC
005 20150610080939.0
008 140530s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014020084
020 $a9780805096910 (hardback)
020 $z9780805096934 (electronic book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBJ57$b.S48 2015
082 00 $a170.9$223
084 $aSCI075000$aSCI034000$aPSY000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aShermer, Michael.
245 14 $aThe moral arc :$bhow science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice, and freedom /$cMichael Shermer.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt and Co.,$c[2015]
300 $a541 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 497-529) and index.
520 $a"From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy. In this provocative and compelling book, Shermer will explain how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism--scientific ways of thinking--have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aScience$xMoral and ethical aspects$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xSocial aspects$xHistory.
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPSYCHOLOGY / General.$2bisacsh