I’m attracted to viewing these moral intuitions as stemming from intuitions about property because the psychological notion of property biologically predates the notion of morality. Territorial behaviors are found in all kinds of different mammals, and prima facie the notion of property seems to be derived from such behaviors. The claim, then, is that during human evolution, moral psychology developed in part by coopting the psychology of territory.
I’m skeptical that anything normative follows from this though.
That means FAI might want to give us territoriality or some extrapolation of it, if that’s part of what we enjoy and want. Not sure there’s any deeper meaning to “normativity”.
I’m attracted to viewing these moral intuitions as stemming from intuitions about property because the psychological notion of property biologically predates the notion of morality. Territorial behaviors are found in all kinds of different mammals, and prima facie the notion of property seems to be derived from such behaviors. The claim, then, is that during human evolution, moral psychology developed in part by coopting the psychology of territory.
I’m skeptical that anything normative follows from this though.
That means FAI might want to give us territoriality or some extrapolation of it, if that’s part of what we enjoy and want. Not sure there’s any deeper meaning to “normativity”.