/lit/ - Literature

>science and rationality can govern all things, even ethics
>and that's a scientific fact.

Is Sam Harris correct in getting from "is" to "ought"? Equally importantly, is his axiom that some experiences are inherently unpleasant foundation enough to build an entire morality on, as he describes in the Moral Landscape?

His axiom seems to not cover nearly enough ground to create such an all-encompassing morality "grounded in fact", and, furthermore, his entire approach seems like it's just a lite religion - something which he detests and sets out to discredit completely. But his main consideration in his hatred for religion is dogma - isn't dogma inevitable in moral matters even with his view of The Moral Landscape considering how little ground his axiom covers?

Thoughts on Sam Harris as a writer?

"Some intuitions are truly basic to our thinking. I claim that the conviction that the worst possible misery for everyone is bad and should be avoided is among them."
- Sam Harris

>I dunno, I just feel it in my gut or something; and I’ll just assume so does everyone else.

to be a serious one, probably. however

>Leaving Stanford in his second year, [Sam Harris] went to India, where he studied meditation with Buddhist and Hindu religious teachers, including Dilgo Khyentse. Eleven years later, in 1997 [at 30 years old], he returned to Stanford, completing a B.A. degree in philosophy in 2000.

it's never too late to be a meme intellectual

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>>9272079
Why waste your time with all them now that they are obsolete

>>9140784
let me plant a flag on your mom

Can't wait for Based Sam to humiliate this pretentious fuccboi

Is this our new god /lit/?

>>8101446
>Hegel
>Not Sam Harris

top lel mate

What does /lit/ think of Sam Harris' recommended reading list?

https://www.samharris.org/book_store/all_sams_recommendations

>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/

where were you when you realized that sam harris was right all along?

Why does he make people angry?

Why does /lit/ fall for the "older is better" meme?

Like: Mozart HAS to be better than modern music. Because >muh culture

Or: Hegel HAS to be a better thinker than Sam Harris...

Why?

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>>7428697
Skip all of this utter shit and pay a visit to the albeit intimidating Papa Harris. You've been putting it off because his ideas are difficult and scary but once you confront that fear, youll be enlightened, philosophy will be finished for you and you can get on with living life to the absolute full.

ITT: Famous people who browse /lit/

How many books do you think he has ever read?

It says here you don't believe in a science of morality. Care to explain?