A natural history of human morality /Michael Tomasello.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
The interdependence hypothesis -- Evolution of cooperation : Foundations of cooperation ; Great ape cooperation ; Kin- and friend-based prosociality -- Second-personal morality : Collaboration and helping ; Joint intentionality ; Second-personal agency ; Joint commitment ; The original "ought" -- "Objective" morality : Culture and loyalty ; Collective intentionality ; Cultural agency ; Moral self-governance ; The original right and wrong ; Coda: after the Garden of Eden -- Human morality as cooperation-plus : Theories of the evolution of morality ; Shared intentionality and morality ; The role of ontogeny.
"A Natural History of Human Morality offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on extensive experimental data comparing great apes and human children, Michael Tomasello reconstructs how early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species. There were two key evolutionary steps, each founded on a new way that individuals could act together as a plural agent 'we'."--