The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
- ISBN-10
- 143917122X
- ISBN-13
- 9781439171226
- Series
- The Moral Landscape
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 307
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-13
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Sam Harris
Description
Calls for an end to religion's role in dictating morality, demonstrating how the scientific community's understandings about the human brain may enable the establishment of secular codes of behavior.
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