Primates and Philosophers_How Morality Evolved

by Frans de Waal

  5 The idea of a rebellion against base motives, or even against our own genes (Dawkins 1976), is a secular version of the old Christian notion of denial of the flesh. Gray (2002) discusses how religious positions have unconsciously slipped into liberal and scientific discourse.

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