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.
注:以下文摘小标题为自拟。 【导语】 良知就像一个人的大腿和胳膊一样,是他身体的组成部分。每个人都被赋予了道德感,只是有的比较强,有的比较弱,就像每个人四肢的力量也有大小之分一样。 ——托马斯•杰斐逊1787 【心理变态者不会共情和同情】 真正的心理变态者给出的回...
評分 評分 評分#書#《Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil》8/10 我一直認為道德倫理應是歸由哲學家來分析,感覺這意識形態的虛無不是科學家應該研究的範疇。但上完耶魯大學《日常生活的道德》這一課程,教授Paul Bloom拋出很多的實驗和例子說明道德並不是我們想象中的僅存在於精神層...
3.5 stars, some of his conclusions are nothing new.
评分3.5 stars, some of his conclusions are nothing new.
评分He—re we go, blurring the edge between cognitive science and moral philosophy. unsurprisingly useless. Slight issue with methodology and lab design.
评分簡明清晰有趣。道德問題絕不隻是可以跟誰和不能跟誰睡覺的問題,麵對復雜的道德選擇很多心腸好看電影愛掉眼淚兒的人一樣會做齣買櫝還珠不能自圓其說的決定,支配道德行為的除瞭同情心和責任心還有我們對自己的認識和理性思辨的能力。關於兒童道德行為的實驗非常有趣但其實隻占本書內容一小部分。身為社會人我們大部分行為帶有道德後果,要如何理清這些復雜頭緒,我們天賦有哪些知識和能力,又有哪些知識和能力需要後天習得,是這本書的主旨。
评分3.5 stars, some of his conclusions are nothing new.
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