Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Excerpt from Waking Up read by Sam Harris on his podcast. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris that discusses a wide range of topics including secular spirituality (essentially within the context of spiritual naturalism), the illusion of the self, psychedelics, and meditation.
Harris has since written six additional books: Letter to a Christian Nation in 2006, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values in 2010, the long-form essay Lying in 2011, the short book Free Will in 2012, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion in 2014, and (with British writer Maajid Nawaz) Islam and the Future of ...
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Free Will is a 2012 book by American philosopher Sam Harris . It argues that free will is an illusion , but that this does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of political and social freedom, and that it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important ...
A few months after the book's release, Harris wrote a follow-up at The Huffington Post responding to his critics. [ 49 ] On August 31, 2013, in response to the negative reviews of his book, Harris issued a public challenge for anyone to write an essay of less than 1,000 words rebutting the book's "central argument". [ 50 ]
Two years later, Harris followed up with Letter to a Christian Nation, which was a severe criticism of Christianity. [16] Later Harris wrote several bestselling non-fiction books including The Moral Landscape, and Waking Up, along with two shorter works (initially published as e-books) Free Will and Lying. [17] [18]
Letter to a Christian Nation is a 2006 book by Sam Harris, written in response to feedback he received following the publication of his first book The End of Faith.The book is written in the form of an open letter to a Christian in the United States.
Pages in category "Books by Sam Harris" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
The book is in dialogue format, and features an exchange between Harris, an atheist and a critic of religion, and Nawaz, an Islamist-turned-liberal activist. [1] Harris argues that the doctrines of Islam are dangerous while Nawaz defends Islam by arguing that those dangerous doctrines have been circumvented by the tradition. [3]