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.
人性善恶的问题也算是道德心理学的探讨范畴,关于人性的善恶问题,大致有如下几种观点:性善论、性恶论、混合论、白板说。这几种论点也不难理解。性善论认为人性本质上是善良的,孟子就持此观点;性恶论认为人性本质上是败坏的,基督教就秉持这种伦理;混合论认为人性本性既有...
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...
评分我们都有这种经历,当我们看一部电视剧时,经常渴望男女主角有个圆满的结局,对于电影的反派有时恨之入骨。这种体验在阅读小说、观看电影甚至在听人们讲故事时都有类似的体验。事实证明,我们渴望美好、善良,憎恶自私、邪恶和残暴。一面为善,一面为恶,善恶往往一念之间。 说...
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...
评分基本上拓展了课上讲的,中亚很便宜
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
评分差不多是这位教授在Coursera上课程的transcript,所以这书又臭又长又无聊,啰嗦得不行,还不如去看视频
评分He—re we go, blurring the edge between cognitive science and moral philosophy. unsurprisingly useless. Slight issue with methodology and lab design.
评分挺好看的。对各种实验进行分析,很厉害。
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