Has Science Displaced the Soul?: Debating Love and Happiness

by Kevin Sharpe and Rebecca Bryant Bryant

Book Overview

Can science explain powerful human emotions such as love and happiness? Or, are these emotions something more than the action of biochemicals and electrical impulses? Science is constantly uncovering the mysteries of our nature, but we are uneasy about submitting our most intimate feelings to its scrutiny. Religion tells us that God is love but neuroscience counters with love as a well-timed trickle of transmitters and hormones. In the 21st century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742542645
• ISBN13: 9780742542648
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"