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Nature 443, 909-910 (26 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443909a; Published online 25 October 2006

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The Chomsky of morality?

Paul Bloom1 & Izzat Jarudi1

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A view of morality as the product of an innate mental faculty — rather like language.

BOOK REVIEWEDMoral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

by Marc D. Hauser

Ecco: 2006. 512 pp. $27.95

In Moral Minds, Marc Hauser makes an audacious claim about moral thought. He argues that morality is best understood in much the same way as Noam Chomsky described language: as the product of an innate and universal mental faculty.

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