{"product_id":"9780805096910-secondhand-the-moral-arc-how-science-and-reason-lead-humanity-toward-truth","title":"The Moral Arc: How science and reason lead humanity toward truth,","description":"From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy.\n\nIn this provocative and compelling book, Shermer will explain how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism - scientific ways of thinking - have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48111005303003,"sku":"9780805096910-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/26778fcb-e857-410e-9fff-7c88a7c0e071.jpg?v=1767764484","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780805096910-secondhand-the-moral-arc-how-science-and-reason-lead-humanity-toward-truth","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}