Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them
by:
Joshua Greene (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781782393368 (1782393366)
Publish date: January 2nd 2014
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Even though almost all of the books and science experiments cited within the text I have heard elsewhere through other Audible books and lectures, I still found this book edifying since the author, a philosopher, knows how to explain complicated science better than most science writers by explaining...
Not really that good. If it is compared to Moral Landscape by Sam Harris or The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer, it is comparatively shallow and confusing. Not fair. I know. It is still an interesting take, a form of thought exercise to pick out where the writer has missed the mark in reality. ...
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that there are summaries out there that will tell you what this book is about, so I'm just gonna tell you why I think it was pretty great.1. It's enormously readable - True to his affiliation as a utilitarian, Greene keeps his arguments clear and fairly concise. When he...