Nature's end: the theological meaning of the new genetics
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In: Religion and contemporary culture series
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 2-12
ISSN: 1471-5457
Public Goods can be seen as one important way in which societies sustain themselves over time. These are part of the puzzle of the development of political order. Public goods like the rule of law are non-substractable and non-excludable. For economists the classic textbook examples are national defense and police protection. In this paper I argue that religiosity can function like police protection, a means of sustaining order through fear of punishment from a transcendent source. As a means of reducing defection from social norms it has a role to play as a public good. But religion cannot at the same time be seen as the source of such norms or dissention will undermine the very order that punishment seems to reinforce.
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 58-59
ISSN: 1471-5457
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 58-59
ISSN: 0730-9384
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 2-12
ISSN: 0730-9384
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 87-89
ISSN: 1471-5457
In: Policy review: the journal of American citizenship, Heft 56, S. 85-87
ISSN: 0146-5945
THE AUTHOR TRACES THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE PASSAGE OF UTAH'S RESTRICTIVE ABORTION LAW ON JANUARY 25, 1991.
In: The review of politics, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 453-456
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 56-57
ISSN: 1471-5457
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 129-134
ISSN: 1471-5457
At the cutting edge of research in biotechnology is the production of special genetically engineered organisms for use in an open, agricultural environment. We argue that the standard approaches to risk assessment and management employed by regulatory agencies are inadequate to the task of properly assessing the advisability of such experiments, as well as the even more significant prospect of widespread commercial use of genetically engineered organisms in agriculture. Given the current lack of sufficient information with which to make competent assessments of the risks involved and the extreme difficulties which are likely to inhibit attempts to gain such information in a timely fashion, we conclude that a compelling case for deliberate release programs has not been made.
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 56
ISSN: 0730-9384
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 56-57
ISSN: 0730-9384