Morality — Biological or Philosophical?

loid_void writes to mention The New York Times is reporting that Biologists are making a bid on the subject of morality. "Last year Marc Hauser, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, proposed in his book 'Moral Minds' that the brain has a genetically shaped mechanism for acquiring moral rules, a universal moral grammar similar to the neural machinery for learning language. In another recent book, 'Primates and Philosophers,' the primatologist Frans de Waal defends against philosopher critics his view that the roots of morality can be seen in the social behavior of monkeys and apes."

Comments

The Beginning of Morality.

[frogstar_robot]

Morality got started when we finally figured out that it isn't nice to throw poop at one another.

Re:The Beginning of Morality.

[PitaBred]

...it's not nice? Damnit, now how am I supposed to communicate on slashdot...

Re:Genetics

[suitepotato]

So the seriously depressed are evil, bad people?

Only those in tech support.