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Thanks Jeff for inserting the cleanup tag. I have removed it. I have re-read the article and I feel that, while it may contain the odd dubious phrase, it is otherwise a fairly factual description of the book's contents. I would be grateful to hear of your specific concerns, and indeed of anyone else's.— Laurence Boyce 08:06, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I have now put in place a sectioned article which I trust will give satisfaction. On the wider issue, clearly there's going to be some overlap, but I don't agree that much of the Sam Harris article should be merged over here. The Harris article predated this article by about four months. However, when I wrote it, I was thinking ahead to a time when there would be a book article, so I based the Harris article largely on his media talks, not on the book. A good example would be his lecture, The View from the End of the World.
In fact just about every section of the Sam Harris article now contains phrases or references or events which are not to be found in The End of Faith. Having said that, I do think I will need to tweak the Harris article a bit now. But clearly the Harris article is set to develop further, whereas once we get this article right, one might think it would remain fairly static. Thank you again for your interest.
Laurence Boyce 09:49, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Can someone put in some summaries of the responses to his critics Harris gives in his afterword in the new edition? I don't want to buy another copy of the book to find them out myself, and it would be a good addition to this article. 213.122.54.113 14:33, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
The afterword (dated May 2005) is eight pages long and, I would suggest, is not worth buying the book for. Nor does it merit a detailed description in the article, in my view. Briefly it consists of the following:
Laurence Boyce 18:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
In review of the section on judicial torture in the book, the statement "In a controversial passage, he even goes so far as to argue in favour of the use of judicial torture under certain conditions" in this article seems slightly biased. In the book itself, Harris presents the situation in a series of hypothetical moral decisions and how rational and irrational responses to these compare. I would edit the sentence in the article to not make it sound what appears to me as an inaccurate review of that section. Something simple like "In one passage, he proposes the justified use of judicial torture under certain conditions." Really more of a statement that represents the philosophical question he was reviewing in the book. Maybe someone else could look at that section and agree/disagree with me? - Lt Aurum 13:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Did nobody write in praise of the book? The criticism section section seems awfully lop-sided. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vacant Stare ( talk • contribs) 18:00, August 20, 2007 (UTC).
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Thanks Jeff for inserting the cleanup tag. I have removed it. I have re-read the article and I feel that, while it may contain the odd dubious phrase, it is otherwise a fairly factual description of the book's contents. I would be grateful to hear of your specific concerns, and indeed of anyone else's.— Laurence Boyce 08:06, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I have now put in place a sectioned article which I trust will give satisfaction. On the wider issue, clearly there's going to be some overlap, but I don't agree that much of the Sam Harris article should be merged over here. The Harris article predated this article by about four months. However, when I wrote it, I was thinking ahead to a time when there would be a book article, so I based the Harris article largely on his media talks, not on the book. A good example would be his lecture, The View from the End of the World.
In fact just about every section of the Sam Harris article now contains phrases or references or events which are not to be found in The End of Faith. Having said that, I do think I will need to tweak the Harris article a bit now. But clearly the Harris article is set to develop further, whereas once we get this article right, one might think it would remain fairly static. Thank you again for your interest.
Laurence Boyce 09:49, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Can someone put in some summaries of the responses to his critics Harris gives in his afterword in the new edition? I don't want to buy another copy of the book to find them out myself, and it would be a good addition to this article. 213.122.54.113 14:33, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
The afterword (dated May 2005) is eight pages long and, I would suggest, is not worth buying the book for. Nor does it merit a detailed description in the article, in my view. Briefly it consists of the following:
Laurence Boyce 18:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
In review of the section on judicial torture in the book, the statement "In a controversial passage, he even goes so far as to argue in favour of the use of judicial torture under certain conditions" in this article seems slightly biased. In the book itself, Harris presents the situation in a series of hypothetical moral decisions and how rational and irrational responses to these compare. I would edit the sentence in the article to not make it sound what appears to me as an inaccurate review of that section. Something simple like "In one passage, he proposes the justified use of judicial torture under certain conditions." Really more of a statement that represents the philosophical question he was reviewing in the book. Maybe someone else could look at that section and agree/disagree with me? - Lt Aurum 13:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Did nobody write in praise of the book? The criticism section section seems awfully lop-sided. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vacant Stare ( talk • contribs) 18:00, August 20, 2007 (UTC).
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