5 Quotes by Joseph Heath

As Hobbes saw clearly, people don’t have to be evil to get into collective action problems. They just have to be human.

The environments that are the most hostile from the standpoint of rationality are those that are the most commercial.

When altruistic behavior benefits individuals belonging to another species, it is impossible for the gene to be benefiting some other copy of itself.

The question is, if we already know what the right and the wrong answers are to moral questions, prior to the formulation of an abstract principle, what is the point of formulating the principle?

The idea that people could get along fine with just markets, and no government, turned out to rest upon a version of what economists call the “compositional fallacy.