BEYOND BAD: HOW OBSOLETE MORALS ARE HOLDING US BACK

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  • Pub Date : March 2022 
  • Author : Chris Paley
  • Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint : Coronet
  • Binding Type : Paperback
  • Language : English
  • Category : ADULT NON-FICTION
  • Subject : PHILOSOPHY
  • ISBN : 9781529327120
  • MRP : 499

ABOUT THE BOOK

This is the provocative argument that C hris Paley makes. This isn't an attack on one set of moral codes or one way of thinking about ethics: it's a call for abolishing the whole caboodle.

He uses evolutionary psychology to show how and why morality emerged: they
enabled our forebears to survive and prosper in tribal groups. Today, our morals
constrain us, bias us, and push us in the wrong direction.

The biggest challenges our species faces, whether global warming, nuclear proliferation or the rise of the robots, are pan-human. These challenges are beyond what our moral minds were designed to cope with. You can't build smartphones with stone-age axes, and you can't solve modern humanity's problems with tools that are designed to create primitive, competitive groups.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr C hris Paley has an MSci and a PhD from the University of C ambridge. He is the author of Unthink: Why You Don't Think The Way You Think You Think. In C hris's view the greatest scientific leap of his generation is throwing off common-sense assumptions about the mind: what it's doing for us, why we have morals, and how we make decisions. This leaves scientists free to overturn millennia of fruitless theorising and truly explain why we are what we are and think what we think. He has a wife, three blameless daughters and an imaginary, but mischievous, cat. C hris
might believe himself to be thoroughly amoral, but his wife thinks him 'a good man'.

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