Good Natured The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals

Name: Good Natured The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
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ISBN: 9780674356610

ISBN-10: 0674356616

ISBN-13: 9780674356610

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Frans B. M. de Waal

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In Good Natured, de Waal takes on those who have declared ethics uniquely human. Making a compelling case for a morality grounded in biology, he shows how ethical behaviour is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait, in humans and animals alike.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Prologue


Darwinian Dilemmas


Survival of the Unfittest


Biologicizing Morality


Calvinist Sociobiology


A Broader View


The Invisible Grasping Organ


Ethology and Ethics


Photo Essay: Closeness


Sympathy


Warm Blood in Cold Waters


Special Treatment of the Handicapped


Responses to Injury and Death


Having Broad Nails


The Social Mirror


Lying and Aping Apes


Simian Sympathy


A World without Compassion


Photo Essay: Cognition and Empathy


Rank and Order


A Sense of Social Regularity


The Monkey's Behind


Guilt and Shame


Unruly Youngsters


The Blushing Primate


Two Genders, Two Moralities?


Umbilical versus Confrontational Bonds


Primus inter Pares


Quid pro Quo


The Less-than-Golden Rule


Mobile Meals


At the Circle's Center


A Concept of Giving


Testing for Reciprocity


From Revenge to Justice


Photo Essay: Help from a Friend


Getting Along


The Social Cage


The Relational Model


Peacemaking


Rope Walking


Baboon Testimony


Draining the Behavioral Sink


Community Concern


Photo Essay: War and Peace


Conclusion


What Does It Take to Be Moral?


Floating Pyramids


A Hole in the Head


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index