Joshua Greene: Human Morality

Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Director of the Moral Cognition Lab at Harvard University and author of "Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap between Us and Them"

Professor Greene’s talk on the “features and bugs” of human morality highlighted research on moral judgements and decision-making to argue that morality has to do with the feelings that human beings have to resolve the problem of “me” versus “us,” and that a new kind of “metamorality” is needed to respond to the challenges of “us” versus “them."

[wonder]

This has changed greatly now that we are making connection through social media with different people around the world.

[paulcorrado]

Great talk. The meta consequences we should aim for is the one an all caring, all knowing mind would want. ( not knowable, but we can make better or worse guesses about it) Of course the day to day we use automatic mode (rule, virtues, rights ...) but these should be molded in a way that gives the best consequences even if that is not always the evolution molded our intuitions. A best consequence can be defined theoretically, and we can make guesses at it, but this is still not how to answer day to day questions.

[alexk]

No those woman are not the same - one believes that killing innocent infidels will get them into heaven the other that love is the summum bonum