Frans de Waal: Do Animals Have Morals?

“The point is, of course, that a lot of our moral tendencies are not things that we arrive at by reasoning and logic – ’cause that’s often the philosophers. They think that way. They think we reason ourselves through moral principles. But underneath there are very strong emotions. And that’s what you see on display with these monkeys. And it’s these emotions that drive the process of us formulating moral principles.”