The End of Faith - Chapter 6 - Review - Sam Harris
Channel: Patrick Theist
Date: 26/10/2020

In this chapter, Sam Harris pulls out all the stops in an effort to negate the importance of history in a current formulation of ethics; that is, determining what is right or wrong or good or evil. The chapter is entitled, "A Science of Good and Evil".
After dismissing God, religion and scripture, Harris is left with a platform of ethics that endorses torture, condemns pacifism and gives no fundamental value to an individual human life. 
He brings in both Bertrand Russel and Christopher Hitchens to support his most venomous points surrounding the ideas of good versus evil.
Eve though he hesitatingly points at biology or evolution as a source of ethics, he fails to provide a single shred of evidence that such a foundation is possible.
This chapter is dependent upon framing the past as a time of ignorance but is oblivious to the possibility that our current existence may also be enmeshed and veiled in an ignorance of which we are woefully unaware.