Inspirador Descubre Ideas, Proyectos Y Temas

Universidad Francisco Marroquín granted Leda Cosmides and John Tooby an honorary doctoral degree in social sciences, the maximum distinction of this house of studies and named them honorary professors for their work on evolutionary psychology and liberty. Leda reflects on the climate of free speech and truly liberal education that UFM offers and later talks about her context growing up, where she questioned herself, isn’t there a better way to live? And realized she would find that answer by studying human nature through psychology; this then led her to study economics to understand the interaction between people. "There can be intuitions that we have that certain kinds of policies are good, when in fact when you analyze them cautiously in a large society like this, they turn out to be disastrous”. - Leda Cosmides Cosmides finally talks about the importance of a free society for the pursuit of happiness, in societies where millions of people interact, and each person’s own decisions and values should be re