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The Scientific Basis of Morals

by W. K. Clifford

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Four essays by the Victorian mathematician-philosopher. Clifford grounds morality in the evolved social instinct, explains right and wrong scientifically, and in ‘The Ethics of Belief’ argues that it is wrong always, everywhere and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence; ‘The Ethics of Religion’ turns the same test on creeds.

Still argued over in philosophy classes, a founding text of evidentialism. Download the free EPUB.

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