The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descartes, Darwin, and Locke
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE. Modern Science on Who We Are as Free and/or Relational Beings -- 1. LOCKE, DARWIN, AND THE SCIENCE OF MODERN VIRTUE -- 2. THE VIRTUE OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF VIRTUE. DESCARTES' OVERCOMING OF SOCRATES -- 3. NOTES ON "THE VIRTUE OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF VIRTUE" -- 4. MORE CARTESIAN THAN DESCARTES. REFLECTIONS ON SPINOZA IN THE SPIRIT OF TOCOUEVILLE -- 5. LOCKE'S EXPLANATION OF HOW THE SCIENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY CORRECTS THE NATURAL AUTHORITY OF VIRTUE -- 6. THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN EQUALITY IN LOCKE'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- 7. LOCKE, DARWIN, AND THE SOCIAL INDIVIDUALISM OF VIRTUE -- 8. DESCARTES, LOCKE, AND THE VIRTUE OF THE INDIVIDUAL -- 9. SCIENCE, VIRTUE, AND THE BIRTH OF MODERNITY OR, ON THE TECHNO-THEO-LOGIC OF MODERN NEUROSCIENCE -- 10. THE MUTUAL SACRIFICE OF SCIENCE AND VIRTUE -- 11. THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE AS A MORAL LIFE? VIRTUE AND THE CARTESIAN SCIENTIST -- 12. THE DARWINIAN SCIENCE OF ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE -- 13. LOGON DIDONAI THE CASE OF THE DARWINIAN CONSERVATIVE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS