Sam Harris Can Sound Like an Egoist; Too Bad He Isn’t One
By Ari Armstrong
Why is it that Sam Harris, a committed utilitarian, sometimes sounds a bit like an egoist?
In my recently published essay “Sam Harris’s Failure to Formulate a Scientific Morality,” I point out that Harris upholds as his standard of moral value the utilitarian precept of the greatest good (or happiness) for the greatest number.
Harris’s utilitarian ethics …
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