Godless Honour and the Pursuit of Pleasure

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Sam Harris seemed to speak for most of his fellow new atheists when he wrote The Moral Landscape. According to him, philosophers have debated morality for centuries and came to a stalemate, contributing little to social progress. Western religious disputes about how we should live have been more influential but also more reckless, since monotheism is antithetical to critical thinking. Therefore, Harris argued, we…