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Title : The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
ISBN : 143917122X
Release Date : 2011-09-13
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ISBN : 143917122X
Release Date : 2011-09-13
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The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human Values Sam Harris on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Sam Harris’s first book The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion In the aftermath The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human Harris What I’ve tried to do in my book is give a framework in which we can think about human values in universal terms Currently the most important questions in human life—questions about what constitutes a good life which wars we should fight or not fight which diseases should be cured first etc—are thought to lie outside the purview of science in principle The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human Values Because such answers exist moral relativism is simply false—and comes at increasing cost to humanity And the intrusions of religion into the sphere of human values can be finally repelled for just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra there can be no Christian or Muslim morality The Moral Landscape Wikipedia The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human Values is a 2010 book by Sam Harris in which the author promotes a science of morality and argues that many thinkers have long confused the relationship between morality facts and science The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human The Moral Landscape is no exception The motivation for this book seems to be the commonly held belief that religion if it does nothing else serves as the source for our morality It is one of the most common arguments Harris encounters in his campaign for Oh my where to The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human Defining morality in terms of human and animal wellbeing Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are it can in principle tell us how we ought to be In his view moral relativism is simply false—and comes at an increasing cost to humanity The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human Abstract In The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human Values Sam Harris presents a case for basing moral principles on scientific highlights some of the limits of traditional religious dogmas Likewise he critiques the excessive moral indecisiveness and ineptitude of some who hold a more liberal doctrine calling this “moral relativism” The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human The Value of The Moral Landscape A quarter the rant on religion which takes up a whole chapter is mere recapitulation of points made elsewhere by Harris and others Another quarter the chapter on belief and brain structure is intriguing and germane but lacking in some important details One hopes for a whole book on the subject The Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human The Facts Fetish Some things are just true nothing else makes them true Moral skepticism is caused by the currently fashionable but unargued assumption that only certain kinds of things such as physical facts can be “just true” and that value judgments such as “happiness is better than misery” are not among them The Science of Values The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris In The Moral Landscape Sam Harris 2010 proposes that science can be used to identify values which he defines as “facts that can be scientifically understood regarding positive and negative social emotions retributive impulses the effects of specific laws and social institutions on human relationships the neurophysiology of happiness and suffering etc” pp 1–2 Harris argues that scientific principles are appropriately applied in this domain because “human wellbeing
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