It’s good to be alive
Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Science does ethics, 9 February 2012
Sex, Murder and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition and Complexity Are Revolutionising Our View of Human Nature
by Douglas Kenrick.
Basic, 238 pp., £18.99, May 2011,978 0 465 02044 7 Show More
by Douglas Kenrick.
Basic, 238 pp., £18.99, May 2011,
Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by Sam Harris.
Bantam, 291 pp., £20, April 2011,978 0 593 06486 3 Show More
by Sam Harris.
Bantam, 291 pp., £20, April 2011,
The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice
by Peter Corning.
Chicago, 237 pp., $27.50, April 2011,978 0 226 11627 3 Show More
by Peter Corning.
Chicago, 237 pp., $27.50, April 2011,
“... not on some fairy-tale version of what we would like them to be.’ That, at any rate, is what Douglas Kenrick has to tell us. Sam Harris begins The Moral Landscape in much the same way: ‘The more we understand ourselves at the level of the brain, the more we will see that there are right and wrong answers to questions of human values.’ ... ”