
Revolutionary Biology pt. 1: Nature vs. Nurture vs. Synthesis
Fight Like An Animal
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Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
In 1987 moral psychology was a part of developmental psychology researchers focused on questions such as how children develop and they're thinking about rules especially rules of fairness the big question behind this research was how do children come to know right from wrong where does morality come from. If you believe that moral knowledge is native in our minds it comes preloaded perhaps in our god inscribed hearts as the bible says or in our evolved moral emotions as darwin argued. The western cultural tradition material spiritual body mind physical mental natural human animalhuman biological social biological cultural this dualistic view expresses only a pre-modern version of biology whose intellectual warrant has vanished.
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