Beyond Bad: How obsolete morals are holding us back

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Weight 0.38 kg
Dimensions 3 × 14.2 × 21.8 cm
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Hardback

Language

Pages

272

Publisher

Year Published

2021-3-11

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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1529327091

About The Author

Dr Chris Paley has an MSci and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Unthink: Why You Don't Think The Way You Think You Think. In Chris's view the greatest scientific leap of his generation is throwing off common-sense assumptions about the mind: what it's doing for us, why we have morals, and how we make decisions. This leaves scientists free to overturn millennia of fruitless theorising and truly explain why we are what we are and think what we think. He has a wife, three blameless daughters and an imaginary, but mischievous, cat. Chris might believe himself to be thoroughly amoral, but his wife thinks him 'a good man'.

'I love the prose. I wish more scientists wrote like this… Paley thinks that in the modern world our moral certainty is not only misguided but dangerous. After reading his book, so do I… The book is distinguished by its author's brilliantly unillusioned thinking. For me his basic argument is irrefutable. It could hardly be more necessary in these all-too-moralistic times.'

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Scientific research has achieved what thousands of years of philosophising failed to do: explain why we have morals and how they work. The answers are surprising and frequently disturbing.Morals are obsolete: a malfunctioning relic of our evolutionary past. Chris Paley argues for nothing less than a completely new way of understanding humanity.