Michael Shermer Quote

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.


Shermer (2004). The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Share, Gossip, and Follow the Golden Rule (1st edition ed.). New York: Times Books. p. 18. ISBN 0805075208.


My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a...

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a...

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a...

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a...