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The long reach of reason

This illustrated TED conversation between Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is well worth seeing. When thinking about the foundation and progress of ethics, there are worse places to start than these ideas — although I would stress the evolutionary angle a bit more.

Posted on August 9, 2014December 27, 2015Author Raphael Scholl

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