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.
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評分這本書的作者保羅·布魯姆,是當年公開課流行的時候,我在 Coursera聽的第一門課《耶魯大學的心理學導論》的主講人,當時就超喜歡那個又帥又聰明的教授。這迴翻開他的書,一種時空錯亂感撲麵而來,結伴而來的還有三個字,他!胖!瞭!…… 善惡之源是個很有關注度的話題,人性...
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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【曾小媛讀書營·一年100本】14-善惡之源 人生來既有善也有惡,關鍵在於社會環境、教育、自我發展等等對善惡的教化程度,纔讓人分化齣瞭好人與壞人。 當我們麵對他人給予我們的惡時,大部分人會選擇等待時機報復迴去,也包括我,因為我們不是聖人,也並非佛祖。佛常說放下屠刀...
圖書標籤: 心理學 道德 哲學 倫理 Morality 英文 道德情感 英文原版
人性善惡是儒傢文化的主要議題,罕有西方研究可以參照。此書以三個月到三歲的嬰幼兒的實驗為基礎,說明我們的某些道德意識,如同情,愛,公平是自然産生的。但他並不將之歸之為人性的概念。作者是耶魯大學講座教授,文字相當通俗淺白。
評分Great book.
評分Great book.
評分Great book.
評分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。
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