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We face two fundamentally different kinds of moral problems: Me versus Us (Tragedy of the Commons) and Us versus Them (Tragedy of Commonsense Moralit… - Joshua Greene
" "We face two fundamentally different kinds of moral problems: Me versus Us (Tragedy of the Commons) and Us versus Them (Tragedy of Commonsense Morality). We also have two fundamentally different kinds of moral thinking: fast (using emotional automatic settings) and slow (using manual-mode reasoning). And, once again, the key is to match the right kind of thinking to the right kind of problem: When it's Me versus Us, think fast. When it's Us versus Them, think slow.
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About Joshua Greene
Joshua Greene is an American experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher. He is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, specializing in moral judgment, decision-making and cognitive science.
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Joshua David Greene
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