The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descartes, Darwin, and Locke

Contents

Contents Preface: Modern Science on Who We Are as Free and/or Relational Beings vii Chapter 1: Peter Augustine Lawler Locke, Darwin, and the Science of Modern Virtue 3 Chapter 2: Thomas Hibbs The Virtue of Science and the Science of Virtue: Descartes’ Overcoming of Socrates 24 Chapter 3: Daniel P. Maher Notes on “The Virtue of Science and the Science of Virtue” 46 Chapter 4: Samuel Goldman More Cartesian than Descartes: Reflections on Spinoza in the Spirit of Tocqueville 57 Chapter 5: James R. Stoner, Jr. Locke’s Explanation of How the Science of Civil Society Corrects the Natural Authority of Virtue 81 Chapter 6: Sara M. Henary The Problem of Human Equality in Locke’s Political Philosophy 92 Chapter 7: Lauren K. Hall Locke, Darwin, and the Social Individualism of Virtue 128 Chapter 8: Marc D. Guerra Descartes, Locke, and the Virtue of the Individual 143 Chapter 9: Jeffrey P. Bishop Science, Virtue, and the Birth of Modernity; Or, On the Techno-Theo-Logic of Modern Neuroscience 160 Chapter 10: Ralph Hancock The Mutual Sacrifice of Science and Virtue 183 Chapter 11: Tobin L. Craig The Scientific Life as a Moral Life? Virtue and the Cartesian Scientist 188 Chapter 12: Larry Arnhart The Darwinian Science of Aristotelian Virtue 208 Chapter 13: Paul Seaton Logon Didonai: The Case of the Darwinian Conservative 282 Acknowledgments 317 About the Contributors 319 ...