The Moral Landscape

Informationen zum Autor Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith , Letter to a Christian Nation , The Moral Landscape , Free Will , Lying , and Waking Up . The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. His work has been published in more than twenty languages. Harris has written for the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Economist , The Times , the Boston Globe , the Atlantic , Annals of Neurology , and other outlets. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Please visit his website at SamHarris.org. Klappentext An explosive book now in paperback, that calls an end to religion's monopoly on morality. 'Sam Harris breathes intellectual fire into an ancient debate. Reading this thrilling, audacious book, you feel the ground shifting beneath your feet. Reason has never had a more passionate advocate.' Ian McEwan Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sam Harris, Harris Sam
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780552776387
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77638-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Black Swan
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, RELIGION / Theology, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, SCIENCE / Essays, Religion & beliefs, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Religion and beliefs, philosophy; the god delusion; popular science; morality