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Consciousness, Evolution, and Morality with Robert Wright

The Moral Science Podcast

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The Moral Intuition

I think our fundamental moral intuitions are products of natural selection, in some sense. John Hite: I don't know enough about moral foundations theory to know if I buy into that. The intuition that good deed should be rewarded and bad deed should be punished is 99.99% sure it was given to us by natural selection. We need to subject them to really harsh scrutiny top to bottom and ask if they're defensible.

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