I'm sure many of our basic moral feelings are put there in place by evolution, e.g. disgust and empathy.
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Evolution can explain the similarities in moral behaviour between societies, but can it explain the differences? And the diffs are big.
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Well, no. That's how we know what is cultural.
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Really interesting experiment done with the African Tiv telling them the story of Hamlet & asking for moral analysis.
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An anthropologist did it first & concluded morality to be socially constructed coz differences. Then an evo psych went over it.
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Showed that basic moral emotions the same - duty, loyalty, justice, honour, bravery etc. Differences were in how these shld be carried out.
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eg Christian society torn on wanting Hamlet to kill his uncle but troubled that he planned to do it before he'd had time to pray & repent.
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Tiv felt uncle needed to be killed but not by Hamlet coz killing older male family member dishonourable. Someone else's job.
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But both understood the need to punish him & felt sympathy for Hamlet mixed with impatience at his inconsistency. Not a good leader.
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Yep, pretty much!
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