Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom Narvaez Darcia
Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom Narvaez Darcia Moral development has traditionally been considered a matter of reasoning--of learning and acting in…
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Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom Narvaez Darcia
Moral development has traditionally been considered a matter of reasoning--of learning and acting in accordance with abstract rules. But both ancient philosophy and recent scientific scholarship emphasize implicit systems, such as action schemas and perceptual filters that guide behavior and shape human development. On this model, largely taken for granted in modern societies, acts of selfishness, aggression, and ecological mindlessness are failures of will, moral problems that can be solved by acting in accordance with a higher rationality.
Moral rationality and virtue emerge "bottom up" from lived experience, so it matters what that experience is. In this integrative book, Darcia Narvaez argues that morality goes "all the way down" into our neurobiological and emotional development, and that a person's moral architecture is largely established early on in life. Bringing together deep