What Makes Us Moral? on the Capacities and Conditions for Being Moral

By Bert Musschenga

Book Overview

Preface

Bert Musschenga: What makes us moral? An introduction

Part I: Morality, evolution and rationality

Alejandro Rosas: Rationality and deceit; Why rational egoism cannot make us moral

Katharine Browne: Two problems of cooperation

Catherine Herfeld and Katrien Schaubroeck: The importance of commitment; How Harry Frankfurt's concept of care contributes to Rational Choice Theory

Markus Christen and Thomas Ott: Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as predictive factor for moral agency

Part II: Morality and the continuity between human and nonhuman primates

Bert Musschenga: Animal morality and human morality

Florian Cova: Two kinds of moral competence; Moral agent, moral judge

Andr?s Luco: Humean moral motivation

Harry Wels: Whispering empathy; Transdisciplinary reflections on research methodology

Part III: Nativism and non-nativism

Jessy Giroux: The origin of moral norms and the role of innate dispositions

Carsten Fogh Nielsen: It's complicated - Moral nativism, moral input, and moral development

Julia Hermann: Learning to be moral

Gerben Meynen: Why mental disorders can diminish responsibility; Proposing a theoretical framework

Darcia Narvaez: Natural morality, moral natures and human flourishing

Part IV: Religion and (im)morality

Stephen Maitzen: Atheism and the basis of morality

Anton van Harskamp: What makes the martyr (im)moral?

Bettine Siertsema: Moral lessons from monstrosity; The Kindly Ones and the reader

Part V: Morality beyond naturalism

David Rose: Society and the origin of moral law: Giambattista Vico and non-reductive naturalism

Adam Seligman: Enacting the moral: concrete particularity and subjunctive space

About the authors

Index of names and subjects

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400763425
• ISBN13: 9789400763425
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"