Ronnie de Sousa

Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, University of Toronto

Ronnie de Sousa is professor emeritus in philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind (2007) and Love: A Very Short Introduction (2015).

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Written by Ronnie de Sousa

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Ethics

Forget morality

Moral philosophy is bogus, a mere substitute for God that licenses ugly emotions. Here are five reasons to reject it

Ronnie de Sousa

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Meaning and the good life

Natural-born existentialists

Ethics cannot be based on human nature because, as evolutionary biology tells us, there is no such thing

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