Published: 2021-12-18

ABOUT RELATIONS BETWEEN COOPERATION AND MORALITY. TOWARDS A NEW ANTHROPOLOGY OF MORALITY

Alina Landowska
Etnografia Polska
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/EP65.2021.2699

Abstract

What moral values ​​are can be considered as universal and common for all people? Theory of Morality-as-Cooperation (MAC) states that morality is a collection of biological and cultural solutions – helping kin, helping one’s group, reciprocating costs and benefits, displaying ‘hawkish’ and 'dove-ish' traits, dividing disputed resources, and respecting prior possession – to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human social life. Regardless of culture, those solutions are investigated as morally good. Therefore, seven, distinct types of cooperative behavior, it is possible to derive a coherent theory of morality, which anthropology has so far lacked.

Keywords:

anthropology of morality, moral turn, morality-as-cooperation

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Landowska, A. (2021). ABOUT RELATIONS BETWEEN COOPERATION AND MORALITY. TOWARDS A NEW ANTHROPOLOGY OF MORALITY. Etnografia Polska, 65. https://doi.org/10.23858/EP65.2021.2699

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