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

Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
ISBN-10
0349118094
ISBN-13
9780349118093
Category
Ethics
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Abacus Non-Fiction
Author
Marc D. Hauser

Description

"Scholars have long argued that moral judgements arise from rational deliberations about what society determines is right and wrong. This has generated the idea that our moral psychology is founded on cultural experience. In the revolutionary Moral Minds, Hauser challenges these concepts, showing that this view is illusory and arguing instead that humans have evolved a 'moral instinct', a universal feature of the human mind rather than one informed by gender, education or religion." "Combining his own cutting-edge research with cognitive psychology, linguistics, evolutionary biology and economics, Hauser examines his groundbreaking theory in terms of bioethics, religion and law, as well as our everyday lives."--Back cover.

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