Moral Minds How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

Name: Moral Minds How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
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ISBN: 9780060780708

ISBN-10: 0060780703

ISBN-13: 9780060780708

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marc Hauser

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/29/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.53" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Marc D. Hauser is a professor at Harvard University, where as a Fellow of the Mind, Brain, & Behavior Program he performs laboratory research, supplemented by fieldwork around the world. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife & their menagerie of animals.



Prologue: Righteous Voices



What's Wrong?



Universal Declarations



Justice for All



Grammars of Violence



Native Sense



The Moral Organ



Permissible Instincts



Evolving Code



Roots of Right



First Principles


Epilogue: The Right Impulse


Notes


References


Index