{"product_id":"9780805096910-the-moral-arc-how-science-and-reason-lead-humanity-toward-truth-justice-and-freedom","title":"The Moral Arc: How science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice and freedom","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Michael Shermer\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 560\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy.  In this provocative and compelling book, Shermer will explain how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism - scientific ways of thinking - have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39875334897818,"sku":"9780805096910","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/1625\/7690\/products\/1388757-l_d598df08-bf4d-400f-9bac-c9394adf4230.jpg?v=1634547140","url":"https:\/\/castlebooks.com.au\/products\/9780805096910-the-moral-arc-how-science-and-reason-lead-humanity-toward-truth-justice-and-freedom","provider":"Castlebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}