The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good

by Donald W. Pfaff

Book Overview

Since the beginning of recorded history, law and religion have provided "rules" that define good behavior. When we obey such rules, we assign to some external authority the capacity to determine how we should act. Even anarchists recognize the existence of a choice as to whether or not to obey, since no one has seriously doubted that the source of social order resides in our vast ethical systems. Debate has focused only on whose system is best, never...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199377464
• ISBN13: 9780199377466
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"