This def pre-dates evo psychs, I think her point about literary moral perspectives is quite interesting though. Some things transcend time 
I don't know what you mean. Evo psychs hypothesise that humans developed literature as a way to explore different scenarios.
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My point is that authors of novels in 18thc lit were consciously doing it at the time. Hardly a profound hypothesis for modern evo psychs.
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But modern evo psychs didn't hypothesise this. They make hypotheses about evolution.
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Cf. Your comment clearly implies those guys first came up with it. That's what I was taking issue with.pic.twitter.com/iMF8hpBv9N
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Litersry scholars have known for ages that people wrote literature to work out moral questions.
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You are missing the point. The difference between why we evolved certain traits and what we decide to do consciously and why.
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I don't know if any 18th century authors also suggested this is why we do this or if they are just an explicit example of us doing it.
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guess it's too late to discuss that some moral ideals have changed in lit lol