
Episode 063: Victor Kumar on Moral Progress
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The Evolution of Morality
"I feel so lucky that I found a field that I love and can't wait to spend the rest of my life doing it," he says. "Morality evolved for the sake of cooperation, which is why humans have to cooperate in more complex ways than other animals" The question about how humans became moral isHow did we evolve the more complex moral capacities that other animals don't have? There's a lot of stories about this question." You're currently working on a book. It's about more progress. We needed souped up moral capacities, more like a wider range of emotions, shame and trust.
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