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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

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. He aims to carve a third path between secularists who say morality is subjective , and religionists who say that morality is given by God and scripture. Harris contends that the only moral framework worth talking about is one where "morally good" things pertain to increases in the "well-being of conscious creatures". He then argues that, problems with philosophy of science and reason in general notwithstanding, 'moral questions' will have objectively right and wrong answers which are grounded in empirical facts about what causes people to flourish.


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“Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”

Source: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 6
Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

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