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Publish Date
2005
Publisher
H. Holt and Co.,
Owl Books,
Henry Holt and Company
Language
English
Pages
350
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The science of good and evil: why people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule
2005, H. Holt and Co., Owl Books, Henry Holt and Company
in English
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
February 2, 2004, Times Books
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
December 9, 2004, Owl Books
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Book Details
Table of Contents
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
Appendix I: The devil under form of baboon : the evolution of evolutionary ethics
Appendix II: Moral and religious universals as a subset of human universals.
Edition Notes
"An Owl book."
"Published in hardcover by Times Books in 2004"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-330) and index.
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