By Ben Rogers
ISBN-10: 0415304849
ISBN-13: 9780415304849
We name many stuff sacred, from cows, church buildings and work to flags and burial grounds. Is it nonetheless significant to speak of items being sacred, or is the assumption in basic terms a relic of a bygone non secular age? Does every little thing - and each lifestyles - have its fee? Is not anything Sacred? is a stimulating and wide-ranging debate approximately a few of the significant ethical dilemmas dealing with us this present day, corresponding to the price of human existence, artwork, the surroundings, and private freedom. choked with in actual fact provided arguable concerns, we're requested to make a decision no matter if we must always revere lifestyles whilst anyone chooses to die, guard the large California redwoods, cherish Vermeer's originals for his or her personal sake, or curtail own freedom for the higher reliable. Ronald Dworkin argues that the idea that of the scared is key to any human ethics, and Simon Blackburn explains why he thinks 'a humanist are usually not think accountable on the feelings of awe and reverence that may be encouraged by means of nice non secular artworks. all through, the belief of the sacred in a mundane age is hotly debated among the authors and positioned to the try out: may still or not it's deserted altogether, or does it nonetheless have anything to educate us?Is not anything Sacred? brings jointly amazing philosophers and thinkers, together with Suzanne Uniacke, Michael Clark, Alan Holland, Simon Blackburn, Richard Dawkins, Richard Norman, Alan Howarth, Nigel Warburton, Matthew Kieran and John Harris.