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

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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

【曾小媛读书营·一年100本】14-善恶之源 人生来既有善也有恶，关键在于社会环境、教育、自我发展等等对善恶的教化程度，才让人分化出了好人与坏人。 当我们面对他人给予我们的恶时，大部分人会选择等待时机报复回去，也包括我，因为我们不是圣人，也并非佛祖。佛常说放下屠刀...  

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...  

人之初，性善还是恶？这是个无法简单作答的问题。原因在于，成年人很难科学地观察和研究婴儿。不过，越来越多的证据在表明，婴儿出生不久便具备道德感，知道对什么感兴趣，并期待什么事情发生。换言之，他们能将好与坏区分开来，证明了善恶感并非完全由后天阅历所决定，而是与...  

两千多年前的先秦时期，中国有两位儒家先贤曾先后对人性善和人性恶提出两种针锋相对的观点：孟子说“人性本善”，荀子说“人性本恶”。 巧的是，两人及其后继者都为自己的观点找到大量能够证明自己的正确性，却又无法驳倒对方的证据。以至于两千年多后的今天，人们依旧在为这个...  

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。

Great book.

3.5 stars, some of his conclusions are nothing new.

Great book.

课本来的 虽然在结课之后才真正开始翻这本书（真是奇妙的巧合） 其实本书中我最喜欢的一句话是：旅行能开拓视野 而文学亦是一种旅行（论道德圈的扩张）