
The Moral Arc
How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom
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Narrated by:
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Michael Shermer
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Melody Zownir
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By:
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Michael Shermer
We are living in the most moral period of our species’ history. Best-selling author Michael Shermer’s most accomplished and ambitious book to date demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral. Ever since the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment thinkers consciously applied the methods of science to solve social and moral problems. The experimental methods and analytical reasoning of science created the modern world of liberal democracies, civil rights and civil liberties, equal justice under the law, open political and economic borders, free minds and free markets, and prosperity the likes of which no human society in history has ever enjoyed. More people in more places have greater rights, freedoms, liberties, literacy, education, and prosperity - the likes of which no human society in history has ever enjoyed. In this provocative and compelling book - that includes brief histories of freedom rights, women’s rights, gay rights, and animal rights, along with considerations of the nature of evil and moral regress - Shermer explains how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism - scientific ways of thinking - have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.
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I did not care for Michael Schermer's style of narration which sounded like he was reading from a script, which of course he was. A good narrator, however, makes the listener feel as if he's in an initmate conversaton.A well-researched analysis of human development
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thorough and uplifting
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moral history
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or suffer the fate of the ignominious.
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