Great book bad audio recording (painful sibilance)

The book seems very good for the first part I listen to and Harris reads it well however the audio processing, or rather lack thereof, does not correct for Sam's pretty brutal sibilance. This has the effect of his esses penetrating my ears painfully every few seconds and therefore I was unable to endure very much of it. If the volume isn't loud enough I only hear the occasional ssss ssss ssss and cannot understand what he is saying in my headphones, and if I turn the volume up so that he is intelligible, the esses are painfully loud. Because audible uses an annoying DRM format, I was unable to correct this issue, which would have been trivially easy had it been an MP3. Therefore I was unable to enjoyably listen to this audiobook and shall return it.

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brilliant, but...

Brilliant. Just sad that Harris didn't talk about our moral duty towards animals. To anyone who reads this review, i wholeheartedly recommend Gary Francione's work on this subject.

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interesting, yet sometimes exaggerated

worth the listen, yet for several parts it seemed to me a bit too enthusiastic in trying to convince his message by using only extremely negative cases to point to the inevitable bad outcome of religious beliefs.

I would have perceived it as more scientific as per the scale suggested by the author himself, if a distinction between religion and its spiritual content would have been made more rigorously e.g. separate between priest abuses and the message of each religions core values.

my expectation to find a comparison of world religions and their striving towards human peaks on the moral landscape, was unfortunately not fulfilled, instead this book is rather a case against religion itself, suggesting to abandon it altogether as an unscientific practice.

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A book full of great insights

Eye-opening argument for a reason-based approach to morality. In the meanwhile also solves the problem of free will.

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The moral landscape in the antropocene

Sam Harris is an important geographer of our times. He has defined wellbeing as the measure of altitude in the moral landscape and produces the corresponding maps. It is indeed obvious that we are not talking about a flat landscape and position definitely matters independent of perspective. We can also imagine from their visible objective data that some mountains will be higher than others in spite of being shrouded in clouds. Discussion about absolute altitude however misses out on three important elements:

- the erosion of the powerful memes that have shaped and will shape the landscape and which lifespans are often way shorter then we would like them to be.
- that there is no single road to the visible peaks and that some uphill roads will lead to abysses that other downhill roads would avoid.
- that we still need memes, creeds or religions to organize the masses who go ahead in the search of the promised land to avoid manslaughter when a lower peak hides the high peak.

I am certainly not talking about a divine trinity and I hope that the wisdom of the crowds will turn the arguments into a polytheistic or animistic view. In other words an invitation to read this wonderful book about the fact that altitude really matters.

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Simple and so relevant

I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Sam makes a very clear argument that values and moral can be shaped by reason and facts. Anyone who sat through a religious sermon thinking something’s not right should read the book.

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Exzellent

Sam argumentiert eloquent und überzeugend wie man es von ihm gewöhnt ist. Wer sich mit Ethik/Moral beschäftigt sollte dieses Werk gelesen/gehört haben.

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A "self help" book for society

Brilliantly broad and honest look at where we are now, how we got here and how we could make the future a better one for all.

Does not claim to have all the answers or even to be completely accurate on every matter. Instead provides some simple and useful concepts to improve global wellbeing.

Cannot see how anyone could rationally argue against the core message.

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Great book

The narration was actually quite good, except for one unforgivable flaw: repeatedly pronouncing "et cetera" as
"ek cetera". Every audiobook has a few mispronunciations, and no single individual can be expected to know how to pronounce every word used in English, but a professional narrator ought to know how to pronounce "etc."

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Poorly narrated

Regardless of the good content, the narration is pretty pretty bad. I made it slower than 1x in order for it to sound less metallic and so that I could keep on listening.

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