Title: A natural history of human morality /
Authors: Tomasello, Michael,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Ethics History; Ethics, Evolutionary.; Philosophical anthropology.; Ethics
Abstract: Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent "we".
Contents: The interdependence hypothesis -- Evolution of cooperation : Foundations of cooperation ; Great ape cooperation ; Kin- and friend-based prosociality -- Second-personal morality : Collaboration and helping ; Joint intentionality ; Second-personal agency ; Joint commitment ; The original "ought" -- "Objective" morality : Culture and loyalty ; Collective intentionality ; Cultural agency ; Moral self-governance ; The original right and wrong ; Coda: after the Garden of Eden -- Human morality as cooperation-plus : Theories of the evolution of morality ; Shared intentionality and morality ; The role of ontogeny.