Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
The Author xi
1 The Questions 1
2 The Purpose of Morality and Law 5
3 The Past and the Future 15
4 What is Religion? 31
5 What is the Rule of Law? 53
6 The Families of Religion: Western Religions 65
7 The Families of Religion: Eastern Religions 95
8 The Families of Law 119
9 A Brief Tour of Secular Law 139
10 Money, Banks and Corporations 169
11 Secularisation and Religious Decline 179
12 Reasons for the Decline of Religiosity 197
13 Secularisation of Government 205
14 The Rise of the Lawyers 217
15 Who Rules the World: Lawyers or Economists? 227
16 What is Wrong with the Law? 241
17 Scientific Progress and the Law 255
18 A Way of Living 263
19 A Billion Years from Now 273