Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral judgments tend to be nonutilitarian? Because, as Greene states in his book, Our moral brains evolved to help us spread our genes, not to maximize our collective happiness.
Robert M. Sapolsky
Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral judgments tend to be nonutilitarian? Because, as Greene states in his book, Our moral brains evolved to help us spread our genes, not to maximize our collective happiness.
Robert Morris Sapolsky (born April 6, 1957) is an American academic, neuroscientist, and primatologist. He is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, and is a professor of biology, neurology, and neurosurgery. His research has focused on neuroendocrinology, particularly relating to stress. He is also a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya.
