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Letter: Moral origin?

Published 22 January 2014

From Eric Kvaalen

Joshua Greene tells us that morality is “essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate” and that came about by evolution (7 December, p 30). But then he goes on to tell us that we should think and behave differently – implicitly claiming that there is a higher morality than that which has evolved in us. What is the source of this conviction of his?
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Issue no. 2953 published 25 January 2014

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