The Two-Front Forever War: Moral Nativism and Its Critics.

Taking inspiration from Wittgenstein, we will propose two possible truces for the debates about moral nativism. Keywords: Development; Biology; Infancy; Morality; Nativism EN Development Biology Infancy Morality Nativism 180 187 8 08/07/21 20210501 NES 210501 Two or three decades ago, the so-called heredity-environment question was the center of lively controversy. Nativism, it is said, is a theory about what that starting point is; moral nativism is a theory about the starting point of moral development. We may therefore call the moral nativism debate a two-front war: moral nativists argue both against scholars who propose that morality is learned rather than innate and against scholars who reject the innate-learned dichotomy altogether. [Extracted from the article]