Posts tagged with  " morals "

The importance of repression – Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism

September 29, 2021:

by Park MacDougald. The modern West, in his telling, is the first culture in history that has attempted to deny the legitimacy of the interdicts and to live without some form of sacred authority. Therapy is our means of getting away with this denial. The therapeutic ethos teaches us to overcome the guilt and shame, […]

The Goodness Paradox – How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

September 1, 2019:

by Richard Wrangham. Darwin’s conclusion was forthright. The morality problem could be solved by an ancient system of execution leading to the eradication of selfishly immoral individuals, which would lead to selection against selfish tendencies and in favor of social tolerance.

Moral thinking caused by group selection

February 21, 2008:

Dr Bowles, however, thinks that the virtues of human collaboration are so great that groups composed of genuine, self-sacrificing altruists would outcompete others.