false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172071345m/135663.jpg 135663 4 <p>Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book <i>Moral Minds</i> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> 130737 1 9 2006 Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong total:87|5:17|4:29|3:25|2:8|1:8| 87 300 274 19 5 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 22:16:58 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 22:21:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 06 18:26:53 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 18:26:53 -0800 2009 28 Empathy moves as a form of contagion, like a game of emotional tag. [It spreads more easily by personal contact.:]
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I've read bigger, thicker, and denser nonfiction texts, but for some reason this book was one of those that just continually drew itself out. I fell back to all of the usual tactics involved in reading a book that just never fully engages you: pick up other books to rea...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 29 18:57:31 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 19:17:16 -0800 2008
P.S.: Is any one on the forum a socilogical student? It would be interesting to learn how the social sicence field response to the emergin...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Feb 13 21:35:50 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 21:35:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 07:26:01 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 10:05:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Aug 17 19:35:58 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 19:33:02 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 19:35:58 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 09:07:24 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 08:49:54 -0800 2008
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I found the book a bit long and wordy, however. Hauser seemed to provide a lot of deta...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 04 06:51:41 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 06:52:44 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Tue May 27 09:35:51 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 09:40:07 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Mar 28 11:14:48 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 11:17:27 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Jun 16 19:22:13 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 19:22:33 -0700 2008 2 0 true false Fri Nov 16 09:03:28 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 26 15:15:17 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 16 08:56:30 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 16:19:14 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 16:19:14 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=135663