Morality, Disgust and the Territorial Imperative
Increasingly psychologists and biologists have been supporting the view that emotions may be the phylogenetic building blocks of moral intuitions by providing neural substrates for emotional behavior (e.g. Damasio, 1999, 2003; deWaal, 1996, 2006; Haidt, 2001, 2004; Hauser, 2006). Both Haidt and deWaal have proposed a number of emotional elements contributing to moral intuition which…