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TED-lezing: Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions (2010)

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TED-lezing: Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions (2010)
« Gepost op: 8 oktober 2011, 14:27:34 »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9oB4zpHww

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Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

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"To teach is to open someone's eyes, to let him see what he didn't see before." De Amerikaanse moraaltheoloog Richard McCormick in 1985 in Leuven.