The Evolution of Ethics [electronic resource] : Human Sociality and the Emergence of Ethical Mindedness /
Fowers, B.author.
In this ground-breaking book, Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative, psychological account of human ethics. The book emphasizes the profound ways that human identity and action are immersed in an ongoing social world.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; Permissions; Part I Evolved Human Nature; Introduction; Evolutionary Science and Human Morality; Aristotle's Ethics; Human Sociality and the Necessity of Ethics; The Shape of a Theory of Natural Ethics; The Current State of Evolutionary Accounts of Ethics; The Problem of Integration; The Theory-Practice Problem; The Level of Generality Problem; About the "Is-Ought" Distinction; 1 Flourishing and the Function Argument; Defining Ethics; Aristotle's Theory of the Human Good; Instrumental and Constitutive Goods
The Hierarchy of Instrumental and Constitutive GoodsIndividual and Shared Goods; The Hierarchy of Individual and Shared Goods; The Function Argument; The Content of the Human Good; The Diversity of Human Goods; Summary; 2 Evolved Human Nature; Evolutionary Theory; Evolutionary Psychology; Cognitive Modules; Argument from Design; Comparative Research and Phylogenetic Analysis; Adaptationist Analysis; Game Theory; Proximate and Ultimate Explanations; The Nature-Nurture Question; Part II Human Sociality; 3 Attachment and Friendship; Infant-Caregiver Attachment
Animal Models of Infant-Caregiver AttachmentPrimate Attachment; The Scaffolding of the Infant's Learning; Pair Bonding; Pair Bonding and Intersexual Cooperation; Irreplaceability; Friendship as the Natural Good of Attachment; Friendship as a Constitutive Good; Attachment as a Shared Good; 4 Intersubjectivity and Identity; The Intersubjectivity of Identity Development; Face-to-Face Interaction and Mutual Gaze; Elaboration and Enrichment of Synchrony; Shared Gaze and Object Attention; Infant Symbol Use; Self-Recognition; Self-Regulation; Affective Self-Regulation; Executive Functions
Mentalizing or Theory of MindThe Moral Self; Self-Evaluation; The Moral Self as a Personality System; An Evolutionary Account of Identity Development; Affective and Behavioral Attunement with Others; Executive Functions; Mentalizing; The Moral Self; The Neurophysiology of Identity; The Neurophysiology of Intersubjectivity; Neurophysiology of Executive Functions; A Neurophysiological Substrate for Mentalizing; The Moral Self; Summary; Identity as a Natural Good; Identity as a Constitutive Good; Identity as a Shared Good; 5 Imitation and the Intricacies of Knowledge
The Ubiquity and Rationality of ImitationNormativity in Imitation; Selectivity in Imitation; Adult Imitation; Neurophysiology of Imitation; Mirror Neurons; Human Mirror Neuron System; The MNS and Empathy; The Cognitive Architecture of Intersubjectivity; Comparative Research; Evolutionary Account of Imitation; The Heuristics of Imitation; Imitation and the Natural Goods of Knowledge and Normativity; Knowledge and Normativity as Constitutive Goods; Knowledge and Normativity as Shared Goods; Conclusions; 6 Cooperation, Trust, and Justice; The Evolution of Cooperation
Evolutionary Explanations of Cooperation
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this ground-breaking book, Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative, psychological account of human ethics. The book emphasizes the profound ways that human identity and action are immersed in an ongoing social world.
Ethics.
Biological psychology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Cognitive psychology.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Biological Psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Cognitive Psychology.
Community and Environmental Psychology.