Just Babies

Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is the author or editor of six books, including the acclaimed How Pleasure Works. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, and his scientific and popular articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Nature, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Science, Slate, The Best American Science Writing, and many other publications. He lives in New Haven with his wife and two sons. Visit his website at paulbloomatyale.com and follow him on Twitter at @paulbloomatyale.

出版者:Crown

作者:Paul Bloom

页数:288

出版时间:2013-11-12

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780307886842

图书标签:心理学道德哲学伦理Morality英文道德情感英文原版

From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others’ actions; feel empathy and compassion; act to soothe those in distress; and have a rudimentary sense of justice.

Still, this innate morality is limited, sometimes tragically. We are naturally hostile to strangers, prone to parochialism and bigotry. Bringing together insights from psychology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Bloom explores how we have come to surpass these limitations. Along the way, he examines the morality of chimpanzees, violent psychopaths, religious extremists, and Ivy League professors, and explores our often puzzling moral feelings about sex, politics, religion, and race.

In his analysis of the morality of children and adults, Bloom rejects the fashionable view that our moral decisions are driven mainly by gut feelings and unconscious biases. Just as reason has driven our great scientific discoveries, he argues, it is reason and deliberation that makes possible our moral discoveries, such as the wrongness of slavery. Ultimately, it is through our imagination, our compassion, and our uniquely human capacity for rational thought that we can transcend the primitive sense of morality we were born with, becoming more than just babies.

Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life, moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing, Just Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.

读后感

对比一下各种学科，发现自然科学与技术在单个问题上的理论最少，对于人类已知的问题往往一个理论就解释了，接下来是社会科学，在接下来是人文艺术。离人越近的问题，越是人产生的问题，人们越容易随意解释乃至胡说八道，产生公说公有理，婆说婆有理的情况。很高兴看到越来越多...  

《善恶之源》的作者保罗·布卢姆是美国著名的进化发展心理学家，也是人气超高的耶鲁心理学教授。他的主要研究方向是道德心理的产生和发展，在他看来，想搞清楚人性到底是善是恶，最好的方法就是直接研究婴儿的道德行为。 根据注视时间原理，布卢姆设计了许多针对婴儿的实验，他...  

道德判断背后的心理学 ——读《善恶之源》 彭忠富 “人之初，性本善。”孟子人性本善的论断在中国家喻户晓，他主张通过教化，扶植和培养善的萌芽，使善性得以发扬光大；但荀子却认为人性本恶，他主张通过教化，限制恶的趋势，使人性之恶向善转化。其实不管人性善恶，每个人都...  

人性善恶的问题也算是道德心理学的探讨范畴，关于人性的善恶问题，大致有如下几种观点：性善论、性恶论、混合论、白板说。这几种论点也不难理解。性善论认为人性本质上是善良的，孟子就持此观点；性恶论认为人性本质上是败坏的，基督教就秉持这种伦理；混合论认为人性本性既有...  

用户评价

简明清晰有趣。道德问题绝不只是可以跟谁和不能跟谁睡觉的问题，面对复杂的道德选择很多心肠好看电影爱掉眼泪儿的人一样会做出买椟还珠不能自圆其说的决定，支配道德行为的除了同情心和责任心还有我们对自己的认识和理性思辨的能力。关于儿童道德行为的实验非常有趣但其实只占本书内容一小部分。身为社会人我们大部分行为带有道德后果，要如何理清这些复杂头绪，我们天赋有哪些知识和能力，又有哪些知识和能力需要后天习得，是这本书的主旨。

正义宝宝

有点凌乱，Paul Bloom的talk更有意思

(2013.66)相似的题材，《公正》让我充满了疑问，这本书倒是给了我很多答案。但Paul Broom自己也说，心理学研究的是人们认为什么行为是对的，但哲学研究的是什么行为真正是对的。各种进化心理学的发现非常有趣（以致于全书的30%都是Notes……)，作者的写作风格(还有讲课)风格也无法更加喜爱～ 非常推荐读呀～

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