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.
今天从编辑老师那里听说,这本书已经去了印刷厂,开始在各电商的网站上预售,预计将于今年 2 月初面市。作为本书中译本最早的读者——也就是译者啦——,我闻获此讯,心中难免戚戚。本书从筹备翻译到最终出版,历时经年。其间我的个人生活和学术生涯都发生了诸多变化,本书初稿...
评分《善恶之源》的作者保罗·布卢姆是美国著名的进化发展心理学家,也是人气超高的耶鲁心理学教授。他的主要研究方向是道德心理的产生和发展,在他看来,想搞清楚人性到底是善是恶,最好的方法就是直接研究婴儿的道德行为。 根据注视时间原理,布卢姆设计了许多针对婴儿的实验,他...
评分人活着,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...
评分 评分《善恶之源》的作者保罗·布卢姆是美国著名的进化发展心理学家,也是人气超高的耶鲁心理学教授。他的主要研究方向是道德心理的产生和发展,在他看来,想搞清楚人性到底是善是恶,最好的方法就是直接研究婴儿的道德行为。 根据注视时间原理,布卢姆设计了许多针对婴儿的实验,他...
Great book.
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。
评分写得还蛮有趣,很多详尽的例子,发现了托福听力里经常出现的婴儿实验╯▽╰婴儿对一个东西感兴趣就会盯得时间比较长,通过这个你就可以推测很多事情,比如小婴儿能不能分出猫和狗(≧▽≦)/
评分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)
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