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Moral minds : how nature designed our universal sense of right and wrong

by Marc D. Hauser

This study proposes that humans possess an evolved, universal moral instinct for making intuitive judgements of right and wrong. It draws on neuroscience, linguistics, and biology to examine how this innate faculty influences law, religion, and contemporary bioethics.

Accession 18026 ISBN 9780060780708 Publisher HarperCollins
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