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Does neuroscience show that all our ideas about law and ethics are false? David Opderbeck answers this question with a broad and deep survey of the relationship between theology, science, and ethics. He proposes that Christian theology, which narrates the humanity and divinity of Christ, in conversation with the new Aristotelianism in the philosophy of science, provides a path through secular and religious fundamentalisms alike."This excellent book shows in a highly lucid fashion how contemporary neuro-scientism trades upon a notion of legality to which it has no right, in order to deny the very ground of the possibility of law, which is the law-making capacity of spiritual creatures that participates in the eternal law of God. No previous book has so successfully shown how scientific positivism trades on the incoherence of legal positivism much more than the other way round. It seriously illuminates the vicious biopolitics of our time and indicates the way beyond."--John Milbank, author of Theology and Social Theory"Opderbeck's is an argument of great originality and profundity. Modern attempts to reduce the human capacity for law and lawfulness--our capacity, that is, for transce

Author

David W. Opderbeck;

Publisher

Lightning Source (Tier 4)

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781498223911