Yes. Dislike when new-fangled disciplines step on our toes
guess it's too late to discuss that some moral ideals have changed in lit lol
If they hypothesise that humans became a story-telling species as a way to explore situations without actually placing themselves in it.
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As I said, literary scholars and novel writers knew this long before evo psychs came on the scene
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This isn't really affected by what 18th century authors did consciously.
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No. But to claim it as a hypothesis unique to evo psych when literary scholars have known the same thing for longer is a bit wrong.
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I really don't care enough about this to argue any more abt the difference between evolving abilities & making conscious decisions.
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I'm simply stating thst lit scholars have known the connections between morality and lit for a long while.
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Over & over again no matter how many times I assure you that nobody at all denies this & neither is it the point.
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I think that you both have good points but the message is being missed abit here. Plus if you're interested in a perspective
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on someone's work, talking by e-mail and having a fuller discussion might be more helpful? because twitter limits how much we can write
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and I don't know about you guys but that make it hard for me to really define my terms sometimes when discussing research.
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