Death of Metaphysics; The Death of Culture (eBook)
XXII, 280 Seiten
Springer Netherlands (Verlag)
978-1-4020-4621-6 (ISBN)
The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In both interpretations the outcome is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume offers a critical examination of the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis, focused on its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding.
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. The volume is addressed to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists and public policy professionals as it critically assesses the increasing void between the traditional Christian metaphysical and moral understandings that guided the flourishing of Christian culture and today's very secular, and frequently empty, cultural backdrop.
Acknowledgements. The Death of Metaphysics; The Death of Culture; M.J. Cherry.
Part 1: METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY: THE FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURE AND MORALITY. 1. Accepting God’s Offer of Personal Communication in the Words and Deeds of Christ, Handed on in the Body of Christ, His Church; P. Lee. 2. Faith and Reason: Interpreting the Natural Law; K.Wm. Wildes, SJ. 3. Intellectual Virtues and the Prospects of A Christian Epistemology; W.J. Wood. 4. God Manifested in God’s Works: The Knowledge of God in the Reformed Tradition; R.C. Zachman. 5. Holy Knowing: A Wesleyan Epistemology; J.R. Thobaben.
Part 2: CULTURAL VARIATIONS AND MORAL CASUISTRY. 6. Subversive Natural Law: MacIntyre and African-American Thought; T.H. Hibbs. 7. Is there a Distinctive American Version of Natural Law?; G. Trotter. 8. Why did the Principle of Double Effect Appear in the West?; W.J. Zanardi.
Part 3: APPLICATIONS AND CRITICISMS. 9. How much Guidance can a Secular Natural Law Ethic Offer? A Study of Basic Human Goods in Ethical Decision-Making; J.M. Dubois. 10. On Women’s Health Care: In Search of Nature and Norms; M.A. Gardell Cutter. 11. Toward an Inclusive Epistemology; A. Giampietro.
Part 4: A MORAL CULTURE WITHOUT METAPHYSICS IS EMPTY. 12. Using Natural Law to Guide Public Morality: The Blind Leading the Deaf; N. Capaldi. 13. Ethical Life and the Natural Law: Hegel and the Limits of Morality; P. Wake.
Notes on Contributors. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.8.2006 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | XXII, 280 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Schlagworte | Culture • Epistemology • ethics • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • Interpret • Issue • Knowledge • Metaphysics • Morality • Natural Law • reason |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4020-4621-9 / 1402046219 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-4621-6 / 9781402046216 |
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