The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
(Book discussion)

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 most common justification for religious faith.

Bringing a fresh perspective to age-old questions of good and evil, Harris demonstrates that we already know enough to say that there are right and wrong answers to the most pressing questions of human life. Because such answers exist, moral relativism is simply false - and comes at increasing cost to humanity.

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.