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Science can answer moral questions

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Sam Harris |

TED2010

• February 2010

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.

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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Sam Harris

Neuroscientist, philosopher

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Sam Harris's work focuses on how our growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.

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