The Science of Good and Evil
Subtitle: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Times Books
Published: February 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780805075205
Subjects: Science; Philosophy; Ethics, Evolutionary; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Essays; Life Sciences - Evolution - Human; Science / Evolution; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Good & Evil; Ethics
First sentence: In one of the most starkly honest and existentially penetrating statements ever made by a scientist, Oxford University evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins opined that "the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."