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.
人性本善还是本恶?恐怕是为人所熟知的最“胡搅蛮缠”的辩题之一,与之并驾齐驱的可能只有“先救老婆还是先救妈”了。但前者明显更难,原因在于,作为老公和儿子你尚且可以说出答案,哪怕是违心的。但作为人之初的婴儿却没有发言可能,人们只能透过后续观察,借由哲学、社会...
评分之前看过bbC一个纪录片,讲的也是道德与善恶。纪录片通过脑结构图,基因和环境三方面来讲,最终的答案是基因决定了脑结构,脑结构决定了我们有没有成为心理变态者的潜质,而环境决定了我们会不会成为心理变态者,而这一切,我们却没有任何选择。看完纪录片后感到很绝望,直...
评分对比一下各种学科,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...
评分【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...
某种意义上更像是对Haidt Moral Foundation Theory 的补充本,直到最后一章作者强调reason的重要性时才让我片刻跳脱了这个想法。内容比标题所表达的更为广泛。
评分几个lunch break翻完了,没特别惊艳。好读是真的。
评分人性善恶是儒家文化的主要议题,罕有西方研究可以参照。此书以三个月到三岁的婴幼儿的实验为基础,说明我们的某些道德意识,如同情,爱,公平是自然产生的。但他并不将之归之为人性的概念。作者是耶鲁大学讲座教授,文字相当通俗浅白。
评分9.心理学+道德哲学实在是很有意思啊 讲了很多很多实验 以至于后30%都是引用 大概是读的最有意思的学术书了
评分断断续续看了一遍,虽然我读的道德心理学书籍不多,但这本应该是不错的。一大特点是作者举的例子和引述的各种研究都比较丰富,可惜本人对社会心理学的兴趣有限,虽然我承认社会心理学很多研究很吸引人。此书中心论点是道德的种子在婴儿诞生之前便已种下,即便是小到3个月的婴儿已经显现出一定的道德意识,而这并不能从环境影响角度来解释。后天学习和发展固然重要,但这是通过进化与遗传播撒的道德种子来实现的。例如,路都不会走,话还不会说的婴儿便在实验中表现出对于行恶者的负面态度及对于行善者的正面态度。他们还能具有天生的公平观念,虽然在初期这种公平多为指向他人(当涉及到自身时总是会偏向自己),形式也较初级(只求数量上多公平)。移情和同情能力也是婴儿们一开始便拥有的(虽然有些天生缺失这些能力的案例)。最后本书也很通俗易懂。
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