Babies help unlock the origins of morality - CBS News - 0 views
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It's a question people have asked for as long as there have been people: are human beings inherently good? Are we born with a sense of morality or do we arrive blank slates, waiting for the world to teach us right from wrong? Or could it be worse: do we start out nasty, selfish devils, who need our parents, teachers, and religions to whip us into shape?
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The philosopher Rousseau considered babies "perfect idiots...Knowing nothing,"
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for most of its history, her field agreed.
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