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- Title
ENLIGHTENMENT SCIENCE AND GLOBALIZATION.
- Authors
Dilley, Stephen Craig
- Abstract
An important intellectual challenge posed by globalization is how Enlightenment science interacts with traditional non-Western worldviews. This essay analyzes a key facet of this challenge: the union of Darwinism with traditional conservative values. Political scientist Larry Arnhart proposes that Darwinism provides a biological foundation for conservative notions of human nature, traditional morality, family values, private property, limited government, and the like. A foundation for his view is an Enlightenment claim that the laws of nature and material causes are sufficient to produce "emergent" human minds capable of the kind of free will consistent with moral responsibility. Yet Arnhart's stance implies determinism of the mind and the disintegration of morality. As such, members of the global community who hold conservative values need to re-examine the parameters of Enlightenment science in light of a more traditional view, which has a richer understanding of the human mind, will, and moral responsibility.
- Subjects
GLOBALIZATION; ARNHART, Larry; DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882; RESPONSIBILITY; ETHICS; DETERMINISM (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY; ENLIGHTENMENT
- Publication
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 1/2, p135
- ISSN
0890-0132
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5840/jis2008201/28