Submission + - Where does morality come from? (nytimes.com)
AlpineR writes: "The New York Times has posted an excellent essay by psychologist Steven Pinker on The Moral Instinct. He explains several modern theories of why humans have morals and how we distinguish between actions that are immoral, disagreeable, unfashionable, and imprudent. Most of our moral judgments seem to be hard-wired in healthy brains and are based upon concepts of harm, fairness, community, authority, and purity. But people disagree on moral decisions because of differences in prioritization of these concepts. Our moral circuitry is shaped by evolution, but the underlying concepts seem to exist in an abstract Platonic realm."
