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

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...  

书写得非常好，有科学、有思辨、有故事、有实验、有理论，最重要的是还有情怀。 保罗是那种会讲，也会写，但又不修边幅的老师，还有点冷幽默。 在这本书里你能看到他不断的发展自己，从研究快感是如何起作用的，到儿童的认知，再到道德心理学，我发现很多认知心理学家，都在...  

人活着，便有善恶之分。 善与恶似乎是自人类诞生之初，便想要彻底弄明白的深刻问题。《三字经》里开篇便讲，人之初，性本善。而中国古代的大儒荀子，却认为人之初，性本恶。而到了近代，更有学者指出，人之初，是无所谓善与恶的，新出生的婴儿犹如白纸一样干净，他将来想要为善...  

用户评价

挺好看的。对各种实验进行分析，很厉害。

3.5 stars, some of his conclusions are nothing new.

一本很详细的实验报告，有点乱。有些例子还是比较有意思的。

基本上拓展了课上讲的，中亚很便宜

差不多是这位教授在Coursera上课程的transcript，所以这书又臭又长又无聊，啰嗦得不行，还不如去看视频