The changes in literary moral perspectives are what keeps it interesting. Helen makes a good point about retrospectively re-evaluating!
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Replying to @chadwick_zoe @HPluckrose
Ha! No issue with the morality point, just re: evo psychs passing off Human nature as new in their discipline when authors in 18thc did it.
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Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe
No evolutionary psychologists claim that no-one knew a human nature existed before they came along.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe
My point was 18thc authors were exploring what people should morally do in certain situations. Hence emphasis on human nature in 18thc lit.
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Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe
OK. I don't think anybody denies this. Religion and philosophy are also focused intensely on it. Humans are obsessed with themselves.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe
So not a profoundly new hypothesis from evo psychs then?
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Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe
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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Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe
But modern evo psychs didn't hypothesise this. They make hypotheses about evolution.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe
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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In relation to evolution! Why we are a story telling species.
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