Science of Good and Evil Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

Name: Science of Good and Evil Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
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ISBN: 9780805077698

ISBN-10: 0805077693

ISBN-13: 9780805077698

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael Shermer

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From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to motivate us to procreate), they are now searching for the very nature of humanity. In The Science of Good and Evil, science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates to moral primates; how and why morality motivates the human animal; and how the foundation of…

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List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 1/2/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Michael Shermer is the director of the Skeptics Society and the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology. He teaches science, technology, and evolutionary thought in the Cultural Studies Program at Occidental College.



Prologue: One Long Argument



The Origins of Morality



Transcendent Morality: How Evolution Ennobles Ethics



Why We Are Moral: The Evolutionary Origins of Morality



Why We Are Immoral: War, Violence, and the Ignoble Savage Within



Master of My Fate: Making Moral Choices in a Determined Universe



A Science of Provisional Ethics



Can We Be Good Without God?: Science, Religion, and Morality



How We Are Moral: Absolute, Relative, and Provisional Ethics



How We Are Immoral: Right and Wrong and How to Tell the Difference



Rise Above: Tolerance, Freedom, and the Prospects for Humanity



The Devil Under Form of Baboon: The Evolution of Evolutionary Ethics



Moral and Religious Universals as a Subset of Human Universals


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