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Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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What Is the Bottom Up Morality of Western Philosophy?

liberto: Many philosophers come with very strange ideas about animals, as if we are not animals. They still have that sort of, that religion baggage with them, which that something special happened to us. But i believe that we have all the tendencies and possibilities in us to be moral beings. And tis may be necessary to set some boundaries for some people. I think that's probably necessary. That's a top down approach. But the basic tendencies are already there. And that's the bottom up furis that the nervous scientists say that, you know, fosmeof we take pleasure in doing good for others,. Because they can measure that in our brain, which is major basis

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