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Michael Shermer: The Moral ARC: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom
Monday, February 2
7:30pm - Seating Area opens at 6:30pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
ONLINE TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT. SOME TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE DOOR.
In "The Moral Arc", Shermer shows us how science and reason move humanity toward a more just world. This provocative and compelling book has been praised by Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, and Lawrence M. Krauss as an important work of skepticism, science, and reason, both thrilling and fascinating, which will forever change your view of the history and destiny of humankind. This ambitious and thoroughly researched tome is a remarkably accessible work of scholarship that explains that the fabric of modern morality derives not from religion, but in large part from secular notions of rational empiricism.
The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy.
Learn how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism--scientific ways of thinking--have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of "Skeptic" magazine, a monthly columnist for "Scientific American", a regular contributor to Time.com, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. His new book is The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom. He is also the author of "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and ConspiraciesHow We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths"; "The Mind of the Market", on evolutionary economics, "Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design", and "The Science of Good and Evil". He has been a college professor since 1979
Ticket Information:
$40.00 -- Premier Ticket. Includes 1 copy of "The Moral Arc", premier seating, and priority in the signing line.
$20.00 -- General Admission. Does not include book.
The book will be available for pickup at the event.
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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