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Lesson 6: What part of the brain might account for psychopathic behavior, according to a film in Lesson 6 (Ted TalK on altruism)?

Lesson 5: According to the Evolution and Morality article by Dr. Boeree, the author states that:

Lesson 5: In the Nicholas Wade article on the beginning of morality in primates, it mentions the primatologist Frans de Waal. What does de Waal argue?    

Lesson 5: In the film in Lesson 5 called Where do Morals Come From?, Alex, the narrator, explains two types of altruism: reciprocal altruism and kin altruism. Match the following with the correct response. Kin altruism has 2 matches and Reciprocal altruism has two 2 matches.

Lesson 5: In the Ted Talk by Jonathan Haidt, the psychologist argues that one of the most powerful forces in the world is human cooperation.

Lesson 5: Jonathan Haidt in his Ted Talk argues that Darwin’s understanding, as presented in the Descent of Man, only explains human’s experience of the profane but it does not explain human’s experience of the sacred.

Lesson 5: According to the article Darwin’s Moral Sense Wallace and Darwin differ in their understanding of morality. How do they differ?

Lesson 5: According to the reading on Evolutionary Ethics, Darwin accepts the greatest-happiness principle (a form of utilitarianism) as a standard of right and wrong.  

According to Aquinas, morality is determined by the arbitrary “will of God” and he rejected the concept of a natural law ethic.

What is the Jain principle of “anekantavada” about? (This was covered in the reading and in one film)