The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values Harris SamPaperback
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values Harris SamPaperback New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the…
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values Harris SamPaperback
New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the primary justification for religious faith.In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people--from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists--agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values.
In his view, moral relativism is simply false--and comes at an increasing cost to humanity. Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. And the intrusions of religion into the sphere of human values