... Hinde is a Professor at St John’s College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA His most recent book, Why Gods Persist (Routledge,... defining the limits of morality, an issue about which there has been surprising disagreement between academic disciplines Chapter provides a sketch of the general approach: this involves a brief discussion... discussion of what I mean by ‘human nature’ and by the ‘pan-cultural psychological characteristics’ which appear to provide the basis for morality Neither of these concepts imply the rigidity that is often