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“Sam Harris breathes Inteliectual flre into an ancient debate. Reading this thrilling, audaclous book, you feel the ground shifting bensath your feet. Reason has never had a more passlonate advocate.” lan McEwan, auth: r of At; nement and winner of the

Man . oker Prize for Amste «am

“] was one of those who had unthinkingiy bought into the hectoring myth that sclence can say nothing about morals. To my surprise, The Moral Landscape has changed ali that for me. . . . As for religlon, and the preposterous idea that we need God to be good, nobody wields a sharper bayonet than Sam Harris.” —; Char: tawkins, author f The Greatest Show on Earth, The Selfish Gene,

The Blind Watchmaker, and Unweaving th. Rainbow

am Harris's first book, 7he End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate abour the

validicy of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—ftom

Te \religious fundamenralists to nonbelieving scientists —agree on one point: science

Nmer 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 primary justification for religious faich.

In chis highly controversial book, Sam Harris secks co link moraliey to the rest of human knowledge. Defining moralicy in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. In his view, moral relativism is simply false—and comes at an increasing cost to humanity, And the incrusions of religion into che sphere of human values can be finally repelled: for just as there is no such ching as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, there can be no Christian or Muslim morality, Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our “culture wars,’ Harris delivers a gamechanging book about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation.

AM HARRIS is a neuroscientist and theautbor ofthe New York Times bestsellers The End of Faith (winner of the PEN Award for Nonfiction) and Lester to a Christian Nation. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Baston Globe, The Atlantic, the Annals of Neurology, Foreign Policy, aad many other publications. Dr. Harris holds a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He is a cofounder and chairman of Project Reason. Please visit his website at www.samhasris.org.