It sounds from his talk that his Moral Foundations Theory is pretty much what Christian theologians and the Founding Fathers termed “The Natural Law”: the law that is written into our hearts from the time we are born.
It would be VERY good to see this idea come back again, because I talk to people about it and they look at me like I have three heads.
Well that just shows you are commenting without any basis or background in MF Theory. It is universal and more of a response to human survival.