Lesson 5: In the Frans de Waal Ted Talk (toward the end of it) he mentions that the monkeys given the grapes never refused them even though their monkey partner next to them were given only cucumbers. This challenges the concept that monkeys understood fairness.

Lesson 5: Which statement fits with Edward O. Wilson’s view?

Lesson 6: Joshua Green’s research (as presented in the Carl Zimmer article, Whose Life Would You Save?) very much contradicts and challenges the material presented in the Patricia Churchland article. If these two scientists were at a table discussing neuroethics they would clearly not see eye to eye on the topic.

Lesson 6: What does the Trolley Dilemma show us about human morality?

Lesson 5: According to the reading on Evolutionary Ethics, Darwin accepts the greatest-happiness principle (a form of utilitarianism) as a standard of right and wrong.  

Lesson 6: In the Paul Zak Ted Talk he discusses what “inhibits” (or decreases) oxytocin. What are some of the things he mentions?

Lesson 5: De Waal argues that humans, more than chimps and apes and other animals, use “reason and judgement” in making moral decisions and more rigorously enforce moral codes with rewards and punishments.

Lesson 5: According to Darwin in the Descent of Man, he thought of sympathy (knowing another’s feelings) as:

Lesson 5: Which statement fits with Frans de Waal’s research?

Lesson 5: According to the Hank Green film on altruism, altruism cannot be explained by Darwinian evolution.