and low on empathizing. • Hume’s pluralist, sentimentalist, and naturalist approach to ethics is more promising than utilitarianism or deontology for modern moral psychology. As a first step in resuming Hume’s project, we should try to identify the taste receptors of the righteous mind. • Modularity can help us think about innate receptors, and how they produce a variety of initial perceptions that get developed in culturally variable ways. • Five good candidates for being taste receptors of the righteous mind are care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and sanctity. In psychology, theories are
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