'Moral Tribes'

Robert Wright and Joshua Greene discuss Greene's new book 'Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them'

Greene also discusses this in the Biology and Psychology of Ethical Behavior presented by Fora with Robert Sapolsky and Susan Friske (which I definitely recommend; all three are renown scholars in their respective fields, and good speakers).  




If you would like the abridged version of this talk, Robert Wright provides an overview here

If my understanding of Greene's argument, from his Fora talk, is correct he is not necessarily advocating for utilitarianism per se but rather some form of meta-morality - a principle that can engage reflective thought to discern moral dilemmas further. I'm a bit skeptical about this - on both a practical and a theoretical level - but I'll have to read the book when it comes out.

In the back of my mind, Isaac Berlin's essay: 'On the Originality of Machiavelli', is ringing.