In the name of God : : the evolutionary origins of religious ethics and violence / / John Teehan.
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Superior document: | Blackwell public philosophy series |
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Place / Publishing House: | Malden, MA : : Wiley-Blackwell,, 2010. |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Blackwell public philosophy.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Evolution and mind
- The evolution of morality
- Setting the task
- The moral brain
- The first layer : kin selection
- The second layer : reciprocal altruism
- A third layer : indirect reciprocity
- A fourth layer : cultural group selection
- A fifth layer : the moral emotions
- Conclusion: From moral grammar to moral systems
- The evolution of moral religions
- Setting the task
- The evolution of the religious mind
- Conceptualizing the almighty
- The moral function of gods
- Evolutionary religious ethics : Judaism
- Setting the task
- Constructing Yahweh
- TheTen Commandments : an evolutionary interpretation
- Conclusion: The evolved law
- Evolutionary religious ethics : Christianity
- Setting the task
- Constructing the Christ
- Setting the boundaries : Christian and/or Jew?
- The third race : Christians as in-group
- Putting on Christ : Christianity's signals of commitment
- Loving your neighbor and turning the other cheek
- Religion, violence, and the evolved mind
- Setting the task
- Devoted to destruction : sanctified violence and Judaism
- The blood of the Lamb
- A case study in the evolved psychology of religious violence : 9/11/01
- Religion evolving
- Setting the task
- Varieties of religious expressions
- If there were no God
- Religion, ethics, and violence : an assessment
- Responding to religion, ethics, and violence : some proposals.