The Moral Instinct

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?ref=magazine
Author: Pinker, Steven
Source: The New York Times
Year: 2008

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Abstract:

Dissecting moral intuitions is no small matter. If morality is a mere trick of the brain, some may fear, our very grounds for being moral could be eroded. Yet as we shall see, the science of the moral sense can instead be seen as a way to strengthen those grounds, by clarifying what morality is and how it should steer our actions.