Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2017
Published In
Society
Keywords
Human nature, Person, Science, Evolution, Morality, Sacred, Roger Scruton
Abstract
This essay examines Roger Scruton's On Human Nature in relation to the tension between modern science and the ordinary experience science aims to explain. Scruton regards the person as emerging from biological realities and tries to defend the integrity of common sense notions of human distinctiveness against reductive interpretations of evolutionary biology.
DOI
10.1007/s12115-017-0192-z
Rights
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Recommended Citation
Maher, D. P. (2017). Roger Scruton's On Human Nature and the Starting Point of Science. Society 54(6): 574-578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-017-0192-z
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Comments
This copy is the author's accepted manuscript version. The final publication is available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-017-0192-z.