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Moral Minds

How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

By Marc D. Hauser

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| Hardcover | 9780060780708

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Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Experience tunes up our mContinue

Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Experience tunes up our moral actions, guiding what we do as opposed to how we deliver our moral verdicts.

For hundreds of years, scholars have argued that moral judgments arise from rational and voluntary deliberations about what ought to be. The common belief today is that we reach moral decisions by consciously reasoning from principled explanations of what society determines is right or wrong. This perspective has generated the further belief that our moral psychology is founded entirely on experience and education, developing slowly and subject to considerable variation across cultures. In his groundbreaking book, Hauser shows that this dominant view is illusory.

Combining his own cutting-edge research with findings in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and anthropology, he examines the implications of his theory for issues of bioethics, religion, law, and our everyday lives.

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  • Born to Be Good

    Nazi parents found it easy to turn their children into conscientious little monsters. In some countries, young men are raised to believe that they have a moral obligation to kill their unchaste sisters. Gruesome examples like these suggest that moral ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • Are We Born Moral?

    According to a prominent tradition of Western thinking, morality is a thin overlay covering human savagery. Human beings are bestial by nature and ethical codes are curbs on their brutish instincts that enable them to live together in relative peace. ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 512 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0060780703
  • ISBN-13: 9780060780708
  • Publisher: Ecco
  • Pub date: Sep 01, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Others
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