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Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Do we possess "a universal moral grammar?"

Seed pairs documentary filmmaker Errol Morris and evolutionary psychologist Marc Hauser in the latest in a series of dialogs in which representatives of the left and right hemispheres address Big Questions.

At issue here: Do we possess a universal moral grammar?

By way of suggesting an answer, the two cover a wide range of territory - from the Milgram experiments to game theory to what science can truly say about the human condition - and the biologist Hauser argues that our bodies do indeed code for a universal set of ethics. Give it a read.

Wayne

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