The Sabbath Was Made For Man: On Dynamic Stability as a Metaethical Criterion

This paper argues that a rule, to have normative force, must provide for its own persistence, and shows that the axiomatic-universalist approach of modern moral philosophy cannot do so. If this is the case, evolutionary stability logic limits the space of valid moral norms, and demands at least enough parochiality in moral obligations to maintain the assortativity of moral communities. Influential…