Saturday, 3 September 2011

Science Religion Morality

Here's Part 1 of Richard Dawkins' 'The Root of All Evil?':

Part 1 Dawkins

And Sam Harris talking about how science can answer moral questions:

Sam Harris

Downloading a free pdf of Harris' book 'The Moral Landscape' is illegal, so don't do it.  I couldn't believe the amount of websites that allow people to steal copyrighted material, this one here, for example:

The Moral Landscape

And there's a review/discussion of the book and science/morality here:

Simon Blackburn in Prospect Magazine

And a discussion video (part 1 of 4) about Science and Morality here:

Science and Morality | Lawrence Krauss, Simon Blackburn, Sam Harris & Steven Pinker 1/4

Atheism website with lots of links/articles on religion/morality:

Atheism.com

Mentioned in Edexcel A2 textbook, here's Jon Nelson 'The Immorality of Religious Morality':

The Immorality...

Atheist Blog post on Morality/Religion

Morality and Religions blog post

Mentioned in the textbook, here's Richard Swinburne 'God and Morality':

God and Morality - Swinburne

Mentioned in textbook, here's Richard Packham on Morality and Religion

Packham

Mentioned in the textbook, A C Grayling 'What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live', I can't find a free source for this but it's cheap to buy, see what you can find.  He recently wrote a Humanist Bible called 'The Good Book' which seems to be a bigger and better version, here he is talking about it on Youtube:

The Good Book video

Here's a BBC article on it:

Do Atheists need their own bible?

Here's an interview with him in The Guardian:

Interview

And while you're at it, see if you can find anything on 'Godless Morality:  Keeping Religion out of Ethics' by Richard Holloway.


Peter Singer pops up throughout the A-Level course (not literally, don't be alarmed, he's not about to crash through a your living room window like some kind of over-educated SAS philosopher with a grudge) and he's only gone and co-written this short article on 'Morality without religion'!  How useful is that? (answer: quite useful):

Hauser and Singer 'Morality without religion '

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