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Forget the pundits – here’s how philosophers see America’s moral divide over Trump

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The Guardian spoke with several moral philosophers before the inauguration and they were surprisingly united in their response.

At the most basic level, they said, there is more agreement than we think.

But some people with whom we can never square our views with each other.

We may also have different interpretations of what those values mean, for example, security might mean strict measures at national borders.

A large coalition of voters for Trump easy to falsely interpret as a monolith, as several philosophers noted.

Dacher Keltner , professor of moral psychology at the University of California, Berkeley , is a firm believer in human goodness, which he defines as behavior that serves “others’ interests above one’s own” “We are deeply good. Thanks to evolution, at the same time we are greedy, rapacious, violent, genocidal, and narcissistic. We are a complex species”.

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