Greene’s moral tribes and cooperation and conflict in India

Greene is both a psychologist and a philosopher. In this review, I will summarise Greene’s psychological re- search on moral intuition and judgment and examine the implication for conflict and cooperation in India.

Author: Dean Spears
Published in: Economic & Political Weekly
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Abstract

Greene’s book is built on psychological facts that are widely shared by humans around the world. But, although he does not consider India directly, his theory may have an important implication for conflict and cooperation in India. Cooperative moral behaviour is likely to be less common in India than in other societies, on an average and with other things being equal.