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Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.
Stephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
Ethics: Studies right and wrong, good and bad.
Michael Huemer • Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy
belonging based,
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
Morality is necessary for self-respect. Self-respect is necessary for happiness. Therefore, morality is necessary for happiness
Rob Henderson • For Happiness, Moral Character is More Important Than Intelligence or Money
Hume’s pluralist, sentimentalist, and naturalist approach to ethics is more promising than utilitarianism or deontology for modern moral psychology. As a first step in resuming Hume’s project, we should try to identify the taste receptors of the righteous mind.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
What is fascinating in this argument is it comes back to metaphysics and assumptions about humans in their current state.
Joshua Smith • Robot Theology
Hume realised that it was good for society if people were nice to each other, so he thought that rational calculation, rather than moral instruction, lay behind social cohesion.