Dennis L. Krebs

Survival of the Virtuous (eBook, PDF)

The Evolution of Moral Psychology

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Do good guys finish last? Did we evolve to look out for number one? Are we bad by nature? At first glance, the theory of evolution seems to imply that all organisms are evolved to be selfish. In this book, evolutionary psychologist Dennis Krebs explains how virtuous behaviors such as altruism, justice, honesty, loyalty, self-control, purity, and respect for authority, have evolved in humans and other species. He argues that the key to solving puzzles of morality--such as what it is, how we acquire moral traits, why we sometimes behave badly, and how we make moral decisions--lies in figuring out what adaptive functions moral traits served in early human environments and how they are influenced by social learning, culture, and strategic social interactions in the modern world. Arguing that the primary function of virtuous behaviors is to enable individuals to advance their own interests and examining the moral decision-making mechanisms that evolved to serve these functions, this book considers the "new brain" mechanisms that are unique to humans and "old brain" mechanisms that we share with other species, illuminating how these work in conjunction with each other to guide our moral choices. Survival of the Virtuous is accessibly written for academic and scholarly readers interested in understanding how moral traits evolved in the human species.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197629499
• Artikelnr.: 66493499

Autorenporträt

Dennis Krebs received his BA from the University of British Columbia and his PhD from Harvard University. He served as a professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has published several books and more than 100 articles on altruism, morality, and evolutionary psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Overview
Chapter 1: The Puzzle of Morality
Chapter 2: What is a Moral Animal?
PART I: THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY
Chapter 3: Why We are not Selfish by Nature: The Function of Morality
Chapter 4: The Evolution of Complex Moral Strategies and Maladaptive Mistakes
Chapter 5: The Emergence of Morality Through Strategic Interaction
Chapter 6: Primate Morality and the Evolution of Moral Norms
Chapter 7: The Cultural Evolution of Morality
PART II: PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO MORALITY
Chapter 8: Psychological Accounts of Morality
Chapter 9: Reframing Psychological Theories of Morality
PART III: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SOURCES OF VIRTUE
Chapter 10: Self Control
Chapter 11: Purity
Chapter 12: Respect for Authority
Chapter 13: Fairness and Honesty
Chapter 14: A Sense of Justice
Chapter 15: Biological Sources of Altruism
Chapter 16: Psychological Sources of Altruism and Loyalty
Chapter 17: Empathy and Altruism
Chapter 18: Human Nature and the Nature of Morality