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Cover; Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Familial Fulcrum; 1. Contemporary Liberalism, Human Nature, and the Family; 2. Marxism, Collectivism, and the Family; 3. Ayn Rand, Individualism, and the Family; 4. Montesquieu, Burke, and the Moderate Family; 5. Family Forms and the Social Individual; Conclusion: Political Moderation and the Familial Fulcrum; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Family as the balance of society.

Examines the relationship between bioethics & biomedicine in terms of the problems inherent with absolute authority. Various interrelated crises confronting bioethics are described, & it is argued that bioethics should look to classical-liberal principles on limiting power. Similarities between biomedical & governmental power are identified in this light before outlining basic classical-liberal assumptions on the human nature & the human condition. The liberal concepts of property rights, subsidiarity, & polycentricity are identified as useful for addressing issues of power. What a classical-liberal bioethics might look like is then considered, asserting that it would not be a clean & simple paradigm. References. D. Edelman

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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