The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule — hermiene.net

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Author: Michael Shermer
Cover artist: Lisa Fyfe
Subtitle: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Language: English
Original language: English
Publisher: Times Books
Categories: Psychology and science
Publication year: 2004
Identifiers: ISBN-10: 0-8050-7520-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7520-5
Open Library edition: OL7933002M (Open Library)
Open Library work: OL92355W (Open Library)
Pages: 351
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Table of contents

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