A Natural History of Human Morality / / Michael Tomasello.
Michael 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 sp...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (180 p.) :; 6 line illustrations |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Interdependence Hypothesis -- 2 Evolution of Cooperation -- 3 Second-Personal Morality -- 4. “Objective” Morality -- 5 Human Morality as Cooperation-Plus -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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| Summary: | Michael 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”. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780674915855 9783110638585 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674915855 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Michael Tomasello. |