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Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Atheist Basicaly Argument, How to Combine Atheism With Humanism?

In holland, since my book came out in the netherlands at the same time, er atheism was not really an issue. People were more interested in what, for me, as the big issue of my book, is the origin of morality. And so humanism has a lot of religious elements sort of infused in it. And i think biology is able to provide a lot of arguments of why we are the way we are, and why we would obe moral beings in society. I have a clear sense of what is right and what is wrong, and i ground my morality in this bookror or what have you. In that sense, my position is much easier on, let

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