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Titel: TED-lezing: Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions (2010)
Bericht door: Jan Maes op 8 oktober 2011, 14:27:34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9oB4zpHww

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Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

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