Is Nothing Sacred?Ben Rogers We call many things sacred, from cows, churches and paintings to flags and burial grounds. Is it still meaningful to talk of things being sacred, or is the idea merely a relic of a bygone religious age? Does everything - and every life - have its price? Is Nothing Sacred? is a stimulating and wide-ranging debate about some of the major moral dilemmas facing us today, such as the value of human life, art, the environment, and personal freedom. |
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... distinction of worth that I am alluding to here . We can describe things , as I have already done , as having ' intrinsic ' or ' instrumental ' value , or as being ' high ' or ' low ' , as being ' inviolable ' or everyday . We can talk ...
... distinction between different forms of worth . This quasi - religious language helps us articulate those contrasts ' between things which are recognised as of categoric or unconditioned or higher importance ... and things ... of lesser ...
... distinction between ' intrinsic value ' ( what we value for its own sake ) and ' instrumental value ' ( what we value as a means to something else ) , and he then distinguishes between two kinds of intrinsic value which he refers to as ...
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Contents
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Is Nature Sacred? Alan Holland | 28 |
Is Art Sacred? Nigel Warburton | 42 |
Art and the Limitations of Experience Matthew Kieran | 51 |
Is Life Sacred? Suzanne Uniacke | 59 |
The Sacred and the Profane Simona Giordano and John Harris | 81 |
Is Liberty Sacred? Alan Haworth | 93 |
The Limits of Liberty Michael Clark | 111 |
The Idea of the Sacred Piers Benn | 119 |
Salvaging the Sacred Simon Blackburn | 128 |
The Sacred and the Scientist Richard Dawkins | 135 |
The Concept of the Sacred Ronald Dworkin | 138 |
Index | 144 |