3/25
“On the Origin of Morality” - Daniel Dennett
“Why do I call [Thomas] Hobbes [1588-1679] a sociobiologist? He couldn’t have wanted to exploit Darwin’s ideas in an analysis of society, like today’s sociobiologists. But he did see, clearly and confidently, the fundamental Darwinian task: he saw that there had to be a story to be told about how the state first came to be created, and how it brought with it something altogether new on the face of the Earth: morality.”
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