The Moral Landscape. How Science Can Shape Human Values

In this long-awaited book, the author of such bestsellers like The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation predicts the end of the monopoly of religion on morality and human values.
Sam Harris destroys the wall between scientific facts and human values, proving. That most people mistakenly assess the relationship between morality and knowledge. Harris calls us to think about morality in terms of well-being of people and animals, considering human experience as peaks and valleys of the moral landscape ". Since there are well-known specific facts about how we fall into this landscape, Harris considers the time when science will not limit himself in determining the term "morality", in principle, science should be able to tell us about what it means to live as right as possible .
By making a fresh jet into an ancient discus on good and evil, good and bad, Harris emphasizes that we already know a lot of people about the human brain and its attitude to reality to argue that there is a significant and false answers to the most acute questions. human life. Since such answers exist, moral relativism is simply erroneous and is quite expensive for humanity. And the intervention of religion into the sphere of human relations can be abolished. As there are no Christian physics or Muslimgebra, there is no Christian or Muslim morality.
Applying your knowledge both in philosophy and neuroscience, together with the experience of participation in cultural wars in their forefront, Harris created an exceptionally innovative book about the future of science and real foundations of the interaction of people