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Morality Explained: the new science of right and wrong - with Oliver Scott Curry

Mon 07 Mar

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Morality Explained: the new science of right and wrong - with Oliver Scott Curry
Morality Explained: the new science of right and wrong - with Oliver Scott Curry

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07 Mar 2022, 19:30

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In 1871’s Descent of Man, Darwin applied his theory of evolution to human nature, and to morality. He argued that ‘the so-called moral sense is originally derived from the social instincts’, and that ‘any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts…would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man’.

This new science of right and wrong answers such questions as: How do ‘selfish genes’ make selfless people? Are there ‘genes for’ morality? When does morality emerge in children? How…

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