November 04, 2005

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(Global) Village Atheist

The End of FaithReligion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Sam HarrisNorton, $24.95, 336 pp.

John Haldane

Sam Harris must have felt conflicted when contemplating the outcome of the last U.S. elections. He believes that values are objective and important, and has little time for moral relativism. He thinks that the greatest threat to world security comes from militant Islam and that Western powers may have a duty to take large-scale preemptive action—even at the cost of innocent l (...)


 

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John Haldane is director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the author of An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion (Duckworth) and Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical (Routledge).

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