The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
- Authors:
- Michael Shermer (author) and Lisa Fyfe (covers)
- Language:
- English
- Original language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Times Books
- Categories:
- Psychology and science
- Publication year:
- 2004
- ISBN:
- 0-8050-7520-8
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- Table of Contents:
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- Prologue: One Long Argument
I. The Origins of Morality
- 1. Transcendent Morality: How Evolution Ennobles Ethics
- 2. Why We Are Moral: The Evolutionary Origins of Morality
- 3. Why We Are Immoral: War, Violence, and the Ignoble Savage Within
- 4. Master of My Fate: Making Moral Choices in a Determined Universe
II. A Science of Provisional Ethics
- 5. Can We Be Good Without God?: Science, Religion, and Morality
- 6. How We Are Moral: Absolute, Relative, and Provisional Ethics
- 7. How We Are Immoral: Right and Wrong and How to Tell the Difference
- 8. 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index