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Marc Hauser
Marc Hauser is Professor of Psychology and Director of Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Harvard University.
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Godless Morality
Marc Hauser and Peter Singer Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2006-01-04Is religion necessary for morality? Many people consider it outrageous, even blasphemous, to deny the divine origin of morality. Either some divine being crafted our moral sense, or we picked it up from the teachings of organized religion. Either way, we need religion to curb nature’s vices. Paraphrasing Katherine Hepburn in the movie The African Queen, religion allows us to rise above wicked old Mother Nature, handing us a moral compass.... read Comments: 3 Recommended: 0 Read: 53794
