34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Complexity of Moral Intuition
I'm certainly on board in taking moral behavior as being subject to rational analysis just like everything else. It's complicated in all sorts of interesting ways. I've had arguments about charter schools where somebody said, this is a fundamental moral position. And in some way, if you think of the function of political moral arguments, sometimes when people do that, it's not that they appreciate that you could argue about these things.
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