Socrates posed a similar question when he asked whether goodness is loved by the gods because it is good or whether goodness is good because it is loved by the gods.
Studies led by my colleague Oliver Scott Curry have shown that much of human morality is rooted in a single preoccupation: cooperation.
Those seven principles of cooperation are judged to be morally good everywhere and form the bedrock of a universal moral compass.
This new idea was quite a big deal because up until then it seemed quite reasonable to assert - as cultural relativists have always done - that there are no moral universals.
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