Natural History of Human Morality
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780674986824
Subjects: Ethics, history; Ethics, evolutionary; Philosophical anthropology
Description: 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".