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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Publication year:
2004
ISBN:
0-8050-7520-8
Pages:
351
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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
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