Where do human morals come from - are they evolutionary ADAPTIONS?
- Evolutionary: Where do human morals come from?
- A familiar and widely accepted answer is that
- human morals are in essence, despite their modern variations, Darwinian adaptations.
- As such morals are about survival and
- reproduction and have nothing to do with moral truth.
- Moreover, while the intuitive, emotional basis of moral judgments was useful to our ancestors,
- this basis is out-dated and unreliable in modern industrial society and thus current moral
- thought in such society, which inevitably embeds this basis,
- is without rational foundation.
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