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,
“... propositions – so seriously that he’s worried about the implication for civil liberties. Peter Corning’s argument in The Fair Society is similar to Kenrick’s: the ‘underlying purpose and vocation of human nature’ is ‘at bottom a contingent survival enterprise’. He uses a grab-bag of recent scientific findings – a little ... ”
