Sam Harris -- The Moral Landscape (UCSD) 1 of 4

NY Times Bestselling Author Sam Harris gave a lecture at University of California, San Diego, 10/27/2010.

In The Moral Landscape, Harris proposes that answers to questions of human value can be visualized on a "moral landscape" -- a space of real and potential outcomes whose peaks and valleys correspond to states of greater or lesser well being in conscious creatures like ourselves. Different ways of thinking and behaving --- different cultural practices, ethical codes, modes of government, etc. --- translate into movements across this landscape. Such changes can be analyzed objectively on many levels -- ranging from biochemistry to economics--but they have their crucial realization as states and capacities of the human brain.

San Diego Coalition of Reason http://SanDiegoCoR.org/

Rational Thought at UCSD http://RationalThoughtUCSD.com/

Books by Sam Harris:

The Moral Landscape http://amzn.to/abKy1c

The End of Faith http://amzn.to/but6qd

Letter to a Christian Nation http://amzn.to/cykeMA

Part 1 of 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwxPh8iWJc
Part 2 of 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1-BtCI9Kzk
Part 3 of 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN2P5kIUM68
Part 4 of 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0zkx7Zvvc

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• Sam Harris
• The Moral Landscape
• morality
• science
• reason
• atheism
• atheist

[RatRippinReptileRage]

skip to 2:50

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

Molleen Matsumura:

In my view, humanism relies on reason and compassion. Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.

[huyked]

I went to this.

[RunLiberty]

Coercive force is the problem

Ron Paul 2012

Abolish the State

[TheAmazingamerica]

@qaplatlhinganmaH yeah, it is ok until they turn everyone into Noahides.

[TheAmazingamerica]

Why should public schools be allowed to push their agenda against religion?

[adolthitler]

What is with people thinking that once someone invokes god for an atrocity we have no ability to say its wrong? We might not be able to prove it to the theist in question, but wrong is wrong. Its our duty to make a judgement call.

[huyked]

Woot! I was there. :)

[REALITY2point0]

the sound on this video appears to be in mono? and its waaaaaaaaaaay too quiet. but thanks for making it available all the same !

[Ricardius1710]

Sam destroys the views that ethics has no place in scientific studies, along with the views that there can not be morals without religion, and the secular views of moral/cultural relativism.

[McLarenF1God]

Thanks for these videos! Sam Harris is a HUGE, huge worldly inspiration for me. I can't say enough good things about him. As much as I love Dawkins, Hitchens, etc. I still hold Harris at a pedestal one tier higher than others. He's just so...hard to dislike.