Overview
- Deals with the role of social and historical factors of morality
- Discusses whether animals can be said to have a morality
- Contains revealing case-studies, e.g., on the Holocaust, on terrorism, and on Vico
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 31)
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This book addresses the question of what it means to be moral and which capacities one needs to be moral.
It questions whether empathy is a cognitive or an affective capacity, or perhaps both. As most moral beings behave immorally from time to time, the authors ask which factors cause or motivate people to translate their moral beliefs into action? Specially addressed is the question of what is the role of internal factors such as willpower, commitment, character, and what is the role of external, situational and structural factors? The questions are considered from various (disciplinary) perspectives.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Morality, Evolution and Rationality
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Morality and the Continuity Between Human and Nonhuman Primates
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Nativism and Non-Nativism
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Religion and (Im)Morality
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: What Makes Us Moral? On the capacities and conditions for being moral
Editors: Bert Musschenga, Anton van Harskamp
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6342-5Published: 01 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8293-7Published: 08 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6343-2Published: 13 June 2013
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 352
Topics: Ethics, Personality and Social Psychology, Philosophy, general