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The Scientific Basis of Morals, and Other Essays

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The Scientific Basis of Morals, and Other Essays

William Kingdon Clifford

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Belief has duties, Clifford insists: it is wrong to believe anything on insufficient evidence, anywhere, ever. His famous ethics of belief appears here with the essays on the scientific basis of morals. A brilliant mathematician, gone at thirty-three, arguing that conscience itself can rest on science. Fierce intellectual honesty in short compass. Read the charge sheet.

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14 chapters

  1. 1I. ON THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF MORALS.
  2. 2II. RIGHT AND WRONG: THE SCIENTIFIC GROUND OF THEIR DISTINCTION.1
  3. 3III. THE ETHICS OF BELIEF.
  4. 4IV. THE ETHICS OF RELIGION.
  5. 5CONTENTS.
  6. 6TWO WORKS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY BY HENRY GEORGE.
  7. 7THE ELECTRICIAN AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
  8. 8CROSBY’S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES,
  9. 9Colophon
  10. 10Availability
  11. 11Encoding
  12. 12Revision History
  13. 13External References
  14. 14Corrections
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