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Aramink
Posted February 25, 2011
Makes Sense, But Controversial
My book club read this and never has there been a more fierce debate about a book! We actually met two weeks in a row so we could continue the discussion, and we probably could have met a third time and not run out of things to discuss. Like his other books, The Moral Landscape is written in an understsandable prose. It is not meant for a casual reader, though. Our members who listened to it on the audiobook seemed too get the most out of it. The idea that our basic morals are hardwired into us and into our animal cousins is remarkable. Harris backs up his theory with hypotheses tested in his lab, and even traveled to Africa to work with bonobos and chimps. Whether or not one eventually agrees with his theory, this book is a fascinating, morally conscious, treatise on something that makes us uniquely human.
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thetascape
Posted January 22, 2012
Highly Recommended-Thought Provoking
A well written exploration of the possibility of a scientific basis for human morality. Will be interesting to follow the progress of this line of thought. Sam Harris raises tough questions and offers some exciting answers.
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The Moral Landscape
Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris is controversial, argumentative, against religion, in favor of science, deeply moral and intensely rationalist. While he never uses one word if many more will do, Harris¿s positions on science, morality, religion and brain function prove innovative, well researched, thought provoking, and, if you are of a religious bent, probably infuriating. Harris dissects the evolutionary and biological processes underlying reason, moral choices and faith. He poses scientific counterarguments for religious tenets and dreams of a world where science proves the worth of any moral choice. You may not agree with everything he has to say, but he expresses the point of view of rationalism with thorough conviction. Caught up in explaining philosophical complexities, he seems not to worry whether readers will totally understand all that he says. Even so, getAbstract suggests this interesting, impassioned, philosophical explanation of the rationalist worldview to those who wonder how and why ¿ and even if ¿ people make certain choices, and what their choices mean.
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