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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
Pages:: 351
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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