A Natural History of Human Morality / Michael Tomasello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomasello, Michael, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--History.

Ethics.

Ethics, Evolutionary.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.) : 6 line illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent “we”.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. The Shared Intentionality Hypothesis

2. Individual Intentionality

3. Joint Intentionality

4. Collective Intentionality

5. Human Thinking as Cooperation

6. Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-91585-2

OCLC:

945740170