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akin to violating our sense of humanness. It is playing with the devil, accepting a Faustian offer of money to strip something of its moral worth. As Haidt notes, even though it is sacrilege to accept payment across different moral concerns, including avoiding harm, acting fairly, and respecting authorit

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is the existence of human cooperation and morality (Fehr & Fischbacher, 2003; Fehr, Fischbacher, & Gichter, 2002; Gintis, Bowles, Boyd, & Fehr, 2003; Haidt, 2012; Wilson, 2010, 2012), in particular: giving in one-shot anonymous laboratory experi- ments, intuitively sacrificing one’s life for the group Gu

these a priori justifications? It suggests that they are not the source of our morality and are, instead, post hoc justifications of our intuitions (Haidt, 2012). To see what we mean, consider the following analogy. One might wonder why we find paintings and sculptures of voluptuous women beautiful. Be

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Books, UK — Bodley Head; Proposal; 80,000 — 100,000 words; Delivery: November 2017] "The Janus Point," writes Julian Barbour, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and author of The End of Time, "proposes a novel and remarkably simple solution to one of the most fundamental problems in physics and cosmology. It

y Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. His academic specialization is morality and the moral emotions. Haidt is the author of two books: The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), whic