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the gut feeling we dressed up in philosophy and called a law
means the system of principles distinguishing right from wrong conduct, and the sense of which actions are good or bad.
from From Latin moralis, meaning 'relating to manners or character,' a word Cicero is said to have coined to translate the Greek ethikos when he needed a Latin term for the Greek idea of ethics. Its root is mos (plural mores), meaning 'custom' or 'habit' — so buried in the word is the quiet admission that morality began as simply what people are in the habit of doing. It reached English in the late Middle Ages through Old French moralité.
- older than logic
- toddlers judge fairness before they can speak fluently
- primate roots
- capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay in tantrums
- trolley fame
- one thought experiment hijacked an entire field
- disgust link
- bad smells make people judge crimes more harshly
- no consensus
- every culture agrees it exists, none agree what
the nuremberg trials — 24 nazi leaders prosecuted for crimes against humanity, 1945-1946
the underground railroad — network that helped ~30,000 enslaved people escape to free states, 1500s-1860s