Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom

by Darcia Narváez

Book Overview

Moral development has traditionally been considered a matter of reasoning--of learning and acting in accordance with abstract rules. On this model, largely taken for granted in modern societies, acts of selfishness, aggression, and ecological mindlessness are failures of will, moral problems that can be solved by acting in accordance with a higher rationality. But both ancient philosophy and recent scientific scholarship emphasize implicit systems,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393706559
• ISBN13: 9780393706550
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.3"