Ethics Lost in Modernity

Ethics Lost in Modernity
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781666747201
ISBN-13 : 1666747203
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Book Synopsis Ethics Lost in Modernity by : Matthew Vest

Download or read book Ethics Lost in Modernity written by Matthew Vest and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics Lost in Modernity: Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics turns to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a guide to understand the immense success—yet great danger—of bioethics. Matthew Vest traces the story of bioethics since its inception in the late 1960s as a way to uncover a number of hidden assumptions within modern ethics that relies upon scientific theorizing as the fundamental way of thinking. Autonomy and utilitarianism, in particular, are two nearly unquestioned goals of scientific theorizing that are easily accessible, but at what cost? Vest argues that such an ethics enacts a thin moral calculation that runs the risk of enslaving ethics to scientism. Far from the depth of religious ethos and practices of virtue, modern ethics is lost amidst thin ethical theories, enacting a language game that instrumentalizes ethics in service of technological, bureaucratic, and professional end goals. He proposes that true moral living is far from anti–science, but rather is envisioned best when ethics and science are balanced with keen insights from ancient sacred cosmology.


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