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Session 23

Modernity and the Moral Life. Session 23. I. Introduction:. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth. Two Main Schools of Thought Rationalism: The Sufficiency of Reason Cartesian Dualism.

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Session 23

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  1. Modernity and the Moral Life Session 23

  2. I. Introduction:

  3. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • Two Main Schools of Thought • Rationalism: The Sufficiency of Reason • Cartesian Dualism

  4. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • Two Main Schools of Thought • Rationalism: The Sufficiency of Reason • Cartesian Dualism • The Search for a “Traditionless” and “Contextless” Knowledge

  5. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • Two Main Schools of Thought • Empiricism: The Sufficiency of the Senses • Comprehensive Analytic Investigation of Our World

  6. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • Two Main Schools of Thought • Empiricism: The Sufficiency of the Senses • Comprehensive Analytic Investigation of Our World • Grand Theories to Explain Everything in Scientifically Natural Terms

  7. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • The Rejection of Traditional Sources of Authority and the Elevation of the Rational Evaluative Self

  8. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • The Assumed Result for Both Schools: Unbridled Human Freedom and Unhindered Human Progress

  9. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • Some Ethical Implications • The Idea Ethical Evolution and Progress

  10. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • Some Ethical Implications • The Idea of Ethical Evolution and Progress • A Focus on Humanity’s Ability to Solve All Ethical Problems

  11. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • Some Ethical Implications • The Irrelevance (and Perhaps Even Insidiousness) of the Divine in Ethical Judgments

  12. II. Intellectual Strands of Modernity: The Pursuit of and Demand for Certainty in Truth • Some Ethical Implications • The Irrelevance (and Perhaps Even Insidiousness) of the Divine in Ethical Judgments • The Secularization (and Subsequent Impoverishment) of Christian Ethics

  13. III. Industrial/Technological Strands of Modernity: The Rise of “Technism” • The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Technological • The Demand for and Love of Efficiency

  14. III. Industrial/Technological Strands of Modernity: The Rise of “Technism” • The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Technological • The Demand for and Love of Efficiency • The Passionate Push for a Sense of Control over Nature, Human Relationships, and the Self

  15. III. Industrial/Technological Strands of Modernity: The Rise of “Technism” • The Ethics of the Technological • New Ethical Quandaries and the Myth of Technological Control

  16. III. Industrial/Technological Strands of Modernity: The Rise of “Technism” • The Ethics of the Technological • The Ascendance of Technique over Morality

  17. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Differentiation and Specialization • Of Economic Production and Labor

  18. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Differentiation and Specialization • Of Economic Production and Labor • Of Education

  19. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Differentiation and Specialization • Of Economic Production and Labor • Of Education • Of Politics and Law

  20. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Differentiation and Specialization • Of Economic Production and Labor • Of Education • Of Politics and Law • Of Applied Ethics

  21. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Pluralization: Intensifications of: • Geographic Mobility

  22. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Pluralization: Intensifications of: • Geographic Mobility • Informational Exchange

  23. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Pluralization: Intensifications of: • Geographic Mobility • Informational Exchange • Cosmopolitan Centers (i.e., World Cities)

  24. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Pluralization: Intensifications of: • Geographic Mobility • Informational Exchange • Cosmopolitan Centers (i.e., World Cities) • Challenges to Basic Religious and Ethical Conceptions of Reality

  25. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Pluralization: Intensifications of: • Justification for Ethical Relativism

  26. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Pluralization: Intensifications of: • Justification for Ethical Relativism • The Marginalization of a Specifically Christian Ethical Viewpoint

  27. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Secularization

  28. IV. Sociological Strands of Modernity • Privatization of Religion

  29. V. Conclusion:Modernity:The Blessing and the Curse

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