The Company of Strangers

by Will Wilkinson on August 13, 2004

This looks like an interesting book. It’s hard to get the right balance between maximization and reciprocity to enable broad, complex social cooperation. I think that if more people had a better grasp of the huge benefits of effective social coordination, together with the delicate balance of cognitive and emotive capacities needed to sustain it, then there would be much much less mystification about morality.

  • Nicholas Weininger
    I wonder whether TCoS says anything deeper or more detailed than does Matt Ridley's _The Origins of Virtue_. The review article makes it sound as if they cover many of the same themes.
  • Tom
    I'm glad you said it. I wouldn't have the guts.
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