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The emotional construction of morals / Jesse J. Prinz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prinz, Jesse J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Emotions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jesse Prinz presents a bravura argument for highly controversial claims about morality, which go to the heart of our understanding of ourselves. He argues that moral values are based on emotional responses, and that these are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. These two claims support a form of moral relativism. - ;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 h
- Contents:
- Morality and emotion
- Constructing morals.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-328) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-14556-4
- 9786611145569
- 0-19-153614-8
- OCLC:
- 476245369
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