{"product_id":"9780739186503","title":"Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity","description":"Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville’s prescience on how a “cognitive elite” might be the aristocracy to be most feared in our time; robotization and the possibility of being ruled by morally challenged robots; organ markets; the degradation of liberal education by obsessive techno-enthusiasm; biotechnology and biological determinism; the birth dearth and the inevitable erosion of our entitlements; the possibility that our techno-domination is basically an unfolding of the Lockean logic of our foundation; and the future of the free exercise of religion in an aggressively libertarian time. All in all, this book should provoke widespread discussion about the relationship between scientific\/technological progress and the one true moral\/spiritual progress that takes place over the course of every particular human life.","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126982492400,"sku":"9780739186503","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780739186503_p0.jpg?v=1769900845","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780739186503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}