Sam Harris – Ground an ehical structure on smth solid and wants to avoid 2 catastrophy: religious

fundamentalism(pathology of order/structure) and moral relativism(patology of chaos).

Undo suffering in the world and things this would be better if this is not the case. - less suffering in
the world, better is.

Arbitrary moral injunction and moral relativism

mitigation - make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful

injunction - an authoritative warning or order
pernicious - having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
apostasy - the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle
commission - an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group.
proclivity - a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition towards
a particular thing
superseded - take the place of (a person or thing previously in authority or use); supplant
conflate - combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one.
Parse - resolve (a sentence) into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles
miseration = commiseration - The feeling or expression of pity or sorrow
sacrament - (in the Christian Church) a ceremony regarded as imparting spiritual grace, in
particular
equate - consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another.
Zero in on - To pay attention:concentrate, focus, listen... [zero in on someone/something] to
aim at someone or something with a gun or camera
self evident - n epistemology (theory of knowledge), a self-evident proposition is a
proposition that is known to be true by understanding its meaning without proof, and/or by
ordinary human reason. ... The following proposition is often said to be self-evident: A
finite whole is greater than, or equal to, any of its parts.
Developmental narative -
be civil with one another -
succint -
overinterpret to your heart's content -
deem – regard or consider in a specified way
impart - make (information) known
jigger - rearrange or tamper with
graft - insert (a shoot or twig) as a graft."it was common to graft different varieties on to a
single tree trunk";transplant (living tissue) as a graft. "they can graft a new hand on to the
nerve ends"
prude - a person who is or claims to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity

Apostasy and blasphemy were killing offences.

Dogmatism – belivieng deeply in some things bad evidence.

Hypothesys 1: People have been capable of this kind of atrocities because culture corupted us. But
appparently chimps do the same thing. This makes the commission of atrocities a matter more
deeper than the one comissioned by religios dogmatism.

Commission of the atrocities in the service of belief.

The fundamentalist say their particular take on that book is the absolute take of the interpretation of
that book.
Redemption under apocaliptic conditions is to be found in the revelation of truthful speach.

How can interpret the world of facts without an aprioric interpretiv structure?!

Fact -> interpretativ structure/framework -> value

There is a difference between facts and fictions.
Distinction between metaphorical and literal truth.

Utility of story, primacy of story.

There are some thing which are literally false, but if you behave as as if they were true you come
out ahead of where you if you behave accordingly to the fact that they are false.