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Overview

"Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people---from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists---agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the most common justification for religious faith. It is also the primary reason why so many secularists and religious moderates feel obligated to "respect" the hardened superstitions of their more devout neighbors." "In this explosive new book, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values, arguing that most people are simply mistaken about the relationship between morality and the rest of human knowledge. Harris urges us to think about morality in terms of human and animal well-being, viewing the experiences of conscious creatures as peaks and valleys on a "moral landscape." Because there are definite facts to be known about where we fall on this landscape, Harris foresees a time when science will no longer limit itself to merely describing what people do in the name of "morality"; in principle, science should be able to tell us what we ought to do to live the best lives possible." "Bringing a fresh perspective to age-old questions of right and wrong and good and evil, Harris demonstrates that we already know enough about the human brain and its relationship to events in the world to say that there are right and wrong answers to the most pressing questions of human life. 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." Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our "culture wars," Harris delivers a game-changing book about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation.

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Sam Harris' The End of Faith (2004) and Letters to a Christian Nation (2006) drew prominent coverage for their reasoned attacks on organized religion. Moral Landscape, his most significant and affirmative work yet, explains how science, particularly neuroscience, can determine human values. This extensive, 320-page work, Harris' first book in four years, received major reviews. Now in a paperback edition that includes a new afterword.

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Harris argues forcefully for the superiority of science over religion as a means of determining morality and understanding the subtle gradations between permanent truths and culturally and historically determined values. Harris reads his own book, and the passion of his writing does not always come through in his own performance: he reads more than performs, his voice never quite conveying the emotion or certainty that fills nearly every sentence of his book. Still, there is a knowingness in his voice that reminds us that it is the author himself speaking, and readers might appreciate that feeling of intimacy. A Free Press hardcover. (Oct.)
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It used to be a given that religion was the source of all important knowledge. Both the "how" of the universe -- what it is like, and how it works -- and the "why" -- why it exists at all, and why human life has a place in it -- were to be answered by referring to religious stories and authorities. With the rise of modernity questions of the first sort were removed from religion's purview: we think of them now as scientific questions, to be answered by empirical investigation. But many defenders of religion cling to the idea that, while science is the proper venue for "how" questions, we must still turn to religion to find answers to questions of meaning and purpose, of the value of human life, and of moral behavior.

But why should this be? In part, as Sam Harris notes in his new book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, it is because secular liberals have tended to accept a form of moral skepticism or relativism, according to which there are no moral truths at all other than those that can be asserted within a particular cultural context. The idea of an objective moral truth, then, is something that secularists have largely abandoned to believers.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781439171219
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • Publication date: 10/5/2010
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 114,946
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Moral Landscape, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Mr. Harris is a Co-Founder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Moral Landscape 1

Chapter 1 Moral Truth 27

Chapter 2 Good and Evil 55

Chapter 3 Belief 113

Chapter 4 Religion 145

Chapter 5 The Future of Happiness 177

Acknowledgments 193

Notes 195

References 239

Index 281

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Posted December 22, 2011

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    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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