Mutualistic cost-benefit logic may explain transcendent moral sentiment.

Evidence

Here, I would like to raise the issue of whether mutualistic calculations of costs and benefits may account for this transcendent sense of morality, which likely got us out of the caves, made civilizations possible, and propelled competition and cooperation among larger and larger groups of genetically unrelated strangers. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 265

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: can pure reciprocity actually account for self-sacrifice for abstract group ideals, or is something beyond rational mutalism needed?
• XREF: connects to: Humans hold systematic moral intuitions about proportionate sharing, helping, and punishment. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 6; Market models explain why moral standards vary across contexts, groups, and individuals. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 400; Mutualism pays off through average expected benefits, not guaranteed returns — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 79 (+7 more)

Related

• Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. (similarity 0.87)
• Mutualistic anthropology explains moral anger as an evolved fairness-restoring mechanism (similarity 0.86)
• Parochial altruism and self-sacrifice exceed mutualistic fairness models. (similarity 0.84)
• Humans hold systematic moral intuitions about proportionate sharing, helping, and punishment. (similarity 0.83)
• Lifetime accounting makes apparent altruism actually mutualistic. (similarity 0.83)
• Morality is about fair cooperation, not maximizing welfare. (similarity 0.82)
• Mutualism faces three challenges, all involving cost without visible return. (similarity 0.82)
• Moral obligation to help scales with recipient benefit relative to actor cost. (similarity 0.82)
• Market models explain why moral standards vary across contexts, groups, and individuals. (similarity 0.82)
• Mutualism pays off through average expected benefits, not guaranteed returns (similarity 0.81)
• Moral psychology broadened fairness-only models to include purity, hierarchy, and coalition domains. (similarity 0.80)
• Morality extends beyond fairness among strangers to relational obligations (similarity 0.80)
• Human morality may rest on a general normativizing capacity, not a dedicated fairness module. (similarity 0.80)
• Morality is an evolved sense of fairness, not a late intellectual achievement (similarity 0.80)
• Moral emotions are dominated by punitive anger, not avoidance (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Mutualistic anthropology explains moral anger as an evolved fairness-restoring mechanism #expands (0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 354
• Parochial altruism and self-sacrifice exceed mutualistic fairness models. #complicates (0.78) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 269