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The Origins of Morality
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Dennis Krebs
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Why do people behave in moral ways in some circumstances, but not in others? In order to account fully for morality, Dennis Krebs departs from traditional appro
The Origins of Christian Morality
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Wayne A. Meeks
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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By the time Christianity became a political and cultural force in the Roman Empire, it had come to embody a new moral vision. This wise and eloquent book descri
Moral Origins
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Christopher Boehm
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-01 - Publisher: Soft Skull Press

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A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution. By the author of Hierarchy of the Forest.
Braintrust
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Patricia S. Churchland
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-22 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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A provocative new account of how morality evolved What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust
The Origins of Fairness
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Nicolas Baumard
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Develops further John Rawls' intuition that our sense of justice is rooted in our evolutionary past and presents a new theory of morality based on evolutionary