Moral thinking

WHENCE morality? That is a question which has troubled philosophers since their subject was invented. Two and a half millennia of debate have, however, failed to produce a satisfactory answer. So now it is time for someone else to have a go. And at a panel discussion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, a group of biologists did just that.

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fun,"the liberal package of individualism and confrontation is the appropriate response to survival in a stable environment in which there is leisure for learning and reflection,"