Thursday, 25 August 2011

The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris


Best selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris introduces his new book The Moral Landscape.

A lively, provocative, and timely new look at one of the deepest problems in the world of ideas. Harris makes a powerful case for a morality that is based on human flourishing and thoroughly enmeshed with science and rationality. It is a tremendously appealing vision, and one that no thinking person can afford to ignore.
Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, author ofHow the Mind Works and The Blank Slate.


I was one of those who had unthinkingly bought into the hectoring myth that science can say nothing about morals. The Moral Landscape has changed all that for me. Moral philosophers, too, will find their world exhilaratingly turned upside down, as they discover a need to learn some neuroscience. As for religion, and the preposterous idea that we need God to be good, nobody wields a sharper bayonet than Sam Harris.
Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, andThe Greatest Show On Earth

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