The End of Faith · Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Harris, Sam -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Inside Cover 1 — Reason in Exile

The Myth of “Moderation” in Religion The Shadow of the Past The Burden of Paradise Muslim Extremism Death: The Fount of Illusions The World beyond Reason Coming to Terms with Belief Gathering Our Wits

2 — The Nature of Belief

Beliefs as Principles of Action The Necessity for Logical Coherence The American Embassy Beliefs as Representations of the World A Matter of True and False Faith and Evidence Faith and Madness What Should We Believe?

3 — In the Shadow of God

Witch and Jew The Holocaust

4 — The Problem with Islam

A Fringe without a Center Jihad and the Power of the Atom The Clash The Riddle of Muslim “Humiliation” The Danger of Wishful Thinking Leftist Unreason and the Strange Case of Noam Chomsky Perfect Weapons and the Ethics of “Collateral Damage” A Waste of Precious Resources What Can We Do?

5 — West of Eden

The Eternal Legislator The War on Sin The God of Medicine

6 — A Science of Good and Evil

Ethics and the Sciences of Mind Moral Communities The Demon of Relativism Intuition Ethics, Moral Identity, and Self-interest Morality and Happiness A Loophole for Torquemada? The False Choice of Pacifism

7 — Experiments in Consciousness

The Search for Happiness Consciousness What Are We Calling “I”? The Wisdom of the East Meditation

8 — Epilogue 9 — Afterword 10 — Response to Controversy

Defamation My views on Islam My position on profiling for the purpose of airline security My position on preemptive nuclear war My position on torture My discussion of killing people “for what they believe” (pp. 52-53 in The End of Faith) My position on the war in Iraq My views on the paranormal: ESP, reincarnation, etc. My views on Eastern mysticism, Buddhism, etc.

11 — Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Further Praise for The End of Faith Index

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