Beyond Bad
Beyond Bad 'Vital reading' - THE TIMES 'Brilliantly unillusioned thinking... But what if morality's all meaningless rubbish, a malfunctioning relic of our evolutionary past?This is the provocative…
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Beyond Bad
'Vital reading' - THE TIMES 'Brilliantly unillusioned thinking... But what if morality's all meaningless rubbish, a malfunctioning relic of our evolutionary past?This is the provocative argument that Chris Paley makes. It could hardly be more necessary in these all-too-moralistic times' - James Marriott, THE TIMESMorals have held empires together, kept soldiers marching under fire, fed the hungry, passed laws, built walls, welcomed immigrants, destroyed careers and governed our sex lives.
Today, our morals constrain us, bias us, and push us in the wrong direction.The This isn't an attack on one set of moral codes or one way of thinking about ethics: it's a call for abolishing the whole caboodle.He uses evolutionary psychology to show how and why morality emerged: theyenabled our forebears to survive and prosper in tribal groups.