Moral sprouts and natural teleologies 21st century moral psychology meets classical Chinese philosophy

Where does our moral sense come from? Is it completely subject to the whims and vagaries of our upbringing, or does it spring in some nascent form from some innate sense of rightness and wrongness? Are the neurological bases for this inborn sense, it if exists, modular (e.g., separate systems for ca...

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Autor principal: Flanagan, Owen J., 1949- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Marquette University Press cop. 2014
Edición:1st ed
Colección:The Aquinas lecture, 2014
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Sumario:Where does our moral sense come from? Is it completely subject to the whims and vagaries of our upbringing, or does it spring in some nascent form from some innate sense of rightness and wrongness? Are the neurological bases for this inborn sense, it if exists, modular (e.g., separate systems for caring/compassion, fairness/justice, in-group loyalty, deference to hierarchy, and purity/disgust)? If there are inborn neurological “modules” that are the bases of our adult sense of morality, what and how many are there and what is their natural developmental trajectory? How are they modified by experience? What is the normal range of their development? What is their relationship to mature concepts of fitness, rightness, goodness, and flourishing? If there are such neurological modular bases, is morality modular all the way up and down, or are their aspects of morality that are non-modular or trans-modular? What is the role of reason (Aristotelean phronesis, Confucian zhi, Kahneman-type System Two thinking) in modifying/regulating System One modules? What are the alternatives to modularity? In addressing these and similar questions, philosopher Owen Flanagan contrasts and compares two approaches to moral modularity, the present day Moral Foundations Theory of Jonathan Haidt and colleagues with that of the 4th Century BCE Chinese philosopher Mencius. This book is a record of the 2014 Aquinas lecture that Professor Flanagan gave at Marquette University. As a psychologist interested in philosophical questions, I am drawn to philosophers — like William James and Owen Flanagan — who address psychological concerns with style, clarity, depth, and wit, addressing us in their own distinct and charming personal voice
Descripción Física:119 p. ; 19 cm
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [108]-117)
ISBN:9780874621853