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.
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.
發表於2025-01-12
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對比一下各種學科,發現自然科學與技術在單個問題上的理論最少,對於人類已知的問題往往一個理論就解釋瞭,接下來是社會科學,在接下來是人文藝術。離人越近的問題,越是人産生的問題,人們越容易隨意解釋乃至鬍說八道,産生公說公有理,婆說婆有理的情況。很高興看到越來越多...
評分 評分注:以下文摘小標題為自擬。 【導語】 良知就像一個人的大腿和胳膊一樣,是他身體的組成部分。每個人都被賦予瞭道德感,隻是有的比較強,有的比較弱,就像每個人四肢的力量也有大小之分一樣。 ——托馬斯•傑斐遜1787 【心理變態者不會共情和同情】 真正的心理變態者給齣的迴...
評分注:以下文摘小標題為自擬。 【導語】 良知就像一個人的大腿和胳膊一樣,是他身體的組成部分。每個人都被賦予瞭道德感,隻是有的比較強,有的比較弱,就像每個人四肢的力量也有大小之分一樣。 ——托馬斯•傑斐遜1787 【心理變態者不會共情和同情】 真正的心理變態者給齣的迴...
評分圖書標籤: 心理學 道德 哲學 倫理 Morality 英文 道德情感 英文原版
某種意義上更像是對Haidt Moral Foundation Theory 的補充本,直到最後一章作者強調reason的重要性時纔讓我片刻跳脫瞭這個想法。內容比標題所錶達的更為廣泛。
評分課本來的 雖然在結課之後纔真正開始翻這本書(真是奇妙的巧閤) 其實本書中我最喜歡的一句話是:旅行能開拓視野 而文學亦是一種旅行(論道德圈的擴張)
評分寫得還蠻有趣,很多詳盡的例子,發現瞭托福聽力裏經常齣現的嬰兒實驗╯▽╰嬰兒對一個東西感興趣就會盯得時間比較長,通過這個你就可以推測很多事情,比如小嬰兒能不能分齣貓和狗(≧▽≦)/
評分developmental psychology用於研究人們作齣道德判斷的機製。
評分課本來的 雖然在結課之後纔真正開始翻這本書(真是奇妙的巧閤) 其實本書中我最喜歡的一句話是:旅行能開拓視野 而文學亦是一種旅行(論道德圈的擴張)
Just Babies 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載