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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…
Beyond Bad
How obsolete morals are holding us back
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272 pages
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28 June 2022
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Summary
‘Brilliantly unillusioned thinking… It could hardly be more necessary in these all-too-moralistic times’ - James Marriott, THE TIMES
Morals have held empires together, kept soldiers marching under fire, fed the hungry, passed laws, built walls, welcomed immigrants, destroyed careers and governed our sex lives. But what if morality’s all meaningless rubbish, a malfunctioning relic of our evolutionary past? This is the provocative argument that Chris …Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529327120 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529327121 |
| Author: | Chris Paley |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Coronet Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 128mm x 196mm |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
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B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
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About The Author
Chris Paley
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’.Returns
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