Sunday, October 03, 2010

Can there be a science of good and evil?

“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, and The Greatest Show On Earth

See Sam Harris' article about his new book here.

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