Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame by Christopher Boehm

Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame

Christopher Boehm

432 pages 2012

2 editions

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From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is “selfish,” do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas like virtue...

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