If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural

Washington Post by Shanker Vedantam | May. 28, 2007 (News Report)

The more researchers learn, the more it appears that the foundation of morality is empathy. Being able to recognize -- even experience vicariously -- what another creature is going through was an important leap in the evolution of social behavior. And it is only a short step from this awareness to many human notions of right and wrong, says Jean Decety, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago.

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 by Veronica Barlee - Oct. 1, 2008

interesting, albeit conventional, examination of possible biological underpinnings of morality. Does not expore at all the cultural determination of morality which have varied widely over time and locale, from the Aztecs to the Quakers to the Celts to the Cathars to Inuit pre-contact to the Japanese court of the 11th century . . .

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