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Generalization and the experience of obligations as externally imposed: Distinct contributors to the evolution of human cooperation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2018

Elizabeth O'Neill
Elizabeth O'Neill*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. [email protected] www.erhoneill.com
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Abstract

It is worth distinguishing two phenomena involved in moral externalization: the experience of moral obligations as externally imposed and the tendency to generalize moral obligations. I propose that each played a distinct role in creating the conditions under which characteristically human cooperation could evolve.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e108
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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