Man - Science - Humanism: A New Synthesis.

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Published by Moscow : URSS, 2013

5397040967 / 9785397040969

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300 p. Almost as new. - Contents -- Introduction -- Man in the Age of Science and the Science of Man: -- Problems and Opinions. -- Chapter One -- Science at the Service of Man and Man as the -- "Measure of All Sciences"; Scientific Cognition -- and Humanistic Values; the Ethics of Science . -- Science in the Present World and the Present World of Science: -- Its Transformation info a Direct Productive and Social Force; the Emergence and Intensification of Global Threats and Problems; the Dilemma of Scientism and Anthropologism; Alarmism, Utopian Optimism and Scientific Humane Realism -- New Social and Human Problems at the New Stage -- in the Revolution in Science and Technology: the Need for "High Touch" Relations; Man as the Centre, Subject, and Object of Integrated Forms of Interaction among Scientific Disciplines; Scientific Cognition and Humanistic Values; a New Type of Science in the "Age of Man"; Science and Ethics: an Alternative or Interdependence? -- Discussions on Science vs. Ethics: an Alternative -- or Interdependence? Freedom to Engage in Scientific Research and the Responsibility of Scientists; the Ethics of Science, -- Its Origins, Specific Characteristics, and Relation to Mankind's General Socio-Ethical Values -- Chapter Two -- Socio-Ethical and Humanistic Principles (Regulators) -- of the Scientific Cognition of Man1 -- 1. Humanism and Ethics in the Context of Modem Biology; Evolutionary-Genetic Foundations of Ethics? Experimentation on Man: Socio-Ethical Evaluations and Solutions -- A Scientific Search for Man's New Potentials vs. Neo-Eugenics; New Medicine and Bionic Technologies; the Development -- of Psycho-physiological Abilities and the Designing -- of 'Artificial Intellect"; the Problem of the Unconscious -- and Parapsychology: Myths vs. Reality -- Humanistic Problems of Human Genetics; Genetic Engineering: -- Unlimited Possibilities and Possible Limitations -- Chapter Three -- Real Humanism as a New Moral Philosophy -- of Human Life -- Why Live? The Biological, Social and Moral-Humanistic Meaning of Human Life; the Evolution of Its Length, -- and Approaches to Its Artificial Prolongation -- Illusions of "Eternal Life" and "Universal Resurrection". -- The Moral-Philosophical Meaning of Death and of Human Immortality (Examples from the History of Russian and World Thought) -- The Idea of Man's Life, Death and Immortality in the Light of Modem Science: Advances of Reanimatology and Myths about "Life after Life"; Humanistic Problems of Thanatology: -- "the Right to Die", and "the Culture of Dying"; Man's Uniqueness and the Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Forms of Life and Intelligence; the Immortality of Man's Mind -- and Humaneness-the Immortality of the Human Race -- Conclusion -- A New Synthesis of Man, Nature and Humanism -- in an Integral Culture of the Human Race' -- Name Index: ISBN 9785397040969 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Title
Man - Science - Humanism: A New Synthesis.
Author
Frolov, Ivan:
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Moscow : URSS
Publication year
2013
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Hardcover.
Language
English
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5397040967
ISBN 13
9785397040969
Item weight
550 grams
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