The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Sam Harris

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Sam Harris
New York Times bestselling author 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 non-believing 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 primary justification for religious faith. In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge. Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. In his view, moral relativism is simply false–and comes at an 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.
This item is not currently in-stock, but it’s available to order online.
Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to a wishlist.

The Book of Rachael
$19.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...

Freedom of Religion and the Secular State
$55.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...

Thinking of Answers: Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
$40.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

Godless
$38.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

Practical Ethics
$50.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

Free Will
Synopsis coming soon.......
$16.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

Letter to a Christian Nation: A Challenge to the Faith of America
Presents a hard-hitting rebuttal of religious fundamentalism and blind belief. With deceptively simple arguments, the author demolishes the myths on which Christianity was built, challenges believers to open their eyes to the...
$24.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Synopsis coming soon.......
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
$31.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...