Emotional Construction of Morals

Name: Emotional Construction of Morals
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ISBN: 9780199571543

ISBN-10: 0199571546

ISBN-13: 9780199571543

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jesse Prinz

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Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends the hypothesis that morality has an emotional foundation. Evidence from brain imaging, social psychology, and psychopathology suggest that, when we judge something to be right or wrong, we are merely expressing our emotions. Prinz argues that these emotions do not track objective features of reality; rather, the rightness and wrongness of an act consists…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 9/20/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.13" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English