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Nicholas Christakis — How We’re Wired for Goodness

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Importance of Individual Identity

i borrow on moral philosopher philip afoot's ideas about, you know, how we can reason about the origins of morality. What this brings to mind for me is that one of the paradoxical elements of the social suite is the capacity for individual identity. That is to say, that we are all unique. How? How could our uniqueness be essential to our socialness? But it is. And the reason is, as follows, that we we use our faces to communicate our unique identity. So every one of us has a different looking face. Why? Why is that? Why don't we all have the same face? It's an evolutionary luxury that we are able to each have...

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