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How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
Ecco
September 2006
On Sale: August 22, 2006
512 pages
ISBN: 0060780703
EAN: 9780060780708
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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