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PRIMATES AND PHILOSOPHERS

Frans de Waal

How Morality Evolved

"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.

Based on the Tanner Lectures de Waal delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2004, Primates and Philosophers includes responses by the philosophers Peter Singer, Christine M. Korsgaard, and Philip Kitcher and the science writer Robert Wright. They press de Waal to clarify the differences between humans and other animals, yielding a lively debate that will fascinate all those who wonder about the origins and reach of human goodness.

PRIMATEN UND PHILOSOPHEN
Deutsch von Hartmut Schickert, Birgit Brandau und Klaus Fritz
[HC: Hanser, 09/08; PB: DTV, 02/11]
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Published 2006-09-01 by Princeton University Press