The Moral Landscape : How Science Can Determine Human Values (CD-Audio)

from heradas

Terrific. The main concept is that although moral questions are often very difficult to answer, and there are usually many satisfactory answers to each one, we can use the principles of science to eliminate the obviously bad answers to those questions.

from Unicycledad

I got a little bogged down in the neuroscience, and in flipping back to the endnotes with my Kindle buttons (which would have been much harder with a real book). But I found the book refreshing and cathartic in many ways. A very productive way to think about moral reasoning in the age of science....

from Unicycledad

I got a little bogged down in the neuroscience, and in flipping back to the endnotes with my Kindle buttons (which would have been much harder with a real book). But I found the book refreshing and cathartic in many ways. A very productive way to think about moral reasoning in the age of science....

from ClifSven

Sam Harris continues to astound and astonish me with his insights! I always learn something new and amazing from reading his books. He also gives me vast new ways of seeing things. Always worth the time and effort to read him!!!

from Niecierpek

In a nutshell, Harris argues that morality should be considered an undeveloped branch of science, and questions about values- about meaning, morality, and life's larger purpose- are really questions about the well-being of conscious creatures. Values therefore translate into facts that can be sci...