morality evo musing
Harvard psych professor Steven Pinker’s intriguing article ‘The Moral Instinct’ (New York Times Magazine 13-Jan cover story) made me dig out my old copy of the book ‘Mutual Aid’, in which author Kropotkin uses countless examples of animal behavior to illustrate how cooperation is at least as big, if not bigger, a species survival technique as is competition (Darwin’s ’survival of the fittest’).
Could this be moral philosophy’s prehistory?