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From Ethical Hostility toward Cooperative Ethics

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Handbook of Moral Motivation

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“The time has come for ethics to be removed temporarily from the hands of philosophers and biologicized” (Wilson, 1975, p. 562), E. O. Wilsons, the father of Sociobiology demanded almost 40 years ago.

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Grün, KJ. (2013). From Ethical Hostility toward Cooperative Ethics. In: Handbook of Moral Motivation. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-275-4_24

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