The Evolution of Fairness: Evaluating Inequality Across Developmental Stages of Civilization
Author: Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D. Abstract Fairness is not a fixed moral principle but a developmental phenomenon rooted in emotional evolution. Building on de Waal’s (2003) findings of inequity aversion in primates and the Five-Stage Model of Civilization (Kim, 2021), this paper proposes a developmental framework for evaluating fairness across individuals, societies, and cultures. Each […]
