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PublisherLexington Books/Fortress Academic

ISBN-10166690046X

ISBN-139781666900460

eBay Product ID (ePID)5061954501

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Number of Pages154 Pages

Publication NameMoral Cosmology : on Being in the World Fully and Well

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectPhilosophy & Social Aspects, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Cosmology, Astronomy

TypeTextbook

AuthorAlbert Borgmann

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Science

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-034653

Dewey Edition23/eng/20231214

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal170

Table Of ContentIntroduction Chapter One: The Rise and Fall of Moral Cosmology Chapter Two: Ethics Within Physics Chapter Three: Background Conditions Chapter Four: Ordinary Cosmology and Mathematics Chapter Five: Ordinary Cosmology and Physics Conclusion Appendix: A Normative Cosmology

SynopsisA moral cosmology was the ordinary background knowledge of prescientific peoples, who took the divinity and the moral rules of the heavenly bodies for granted. That unified world view was disrupted by the European Enlightenment, which divided moral cosmology into physics and ethics: physics tells us what is, ethics tells us what we ought to do. While knowledge of physics has become hard, and understanding ethics has become shifting and uncertain, nostalgia for a unified cosmic understanding continues. Moral Cosmology: On Being in the World Fully and Well demands that we search for one world and learn to be truly at home in that world once again. Albert Borgmann argues that a basic understanding of quantum physics and relative theory offers the widest possible background for the renewal of a moral cosmology, inviting us into a deeper understanding that can inform the focal occasions and practices that we implicitly know to be valuable. We may not always be able to completely understand or explain the depth of the world gathered and disclosed in these focal occasions, but to greet it with celebration deepening into wonder orients us and makes it possible for us to be at home in the universe., This book argues for a unified worldview of moral cosmology that will allow us to be truly at home in the universe, a view that was disrupted by the European Enlightenment. The author contends that a basic understanding of quantum physics and relative theory offers the widest possible background for the renewal of a moral cosmology.

LC Classification NumberQB981.B6 2023