Understanding morality and ethics
E-
Beta: edition 2 of the e-
- less waffle
- more clarity
- more philosophically advanced
- unifies evolved morality into a single coherent structure, incorporating sexual and reproductive moralities
Informative texts for background reading on morality in general:
Nichola Raihani – “The Social Instinct – How Cooperation Shaped the World”: Jonathan Cape / Vintage / Penguin Random House, 2021
Jonathan Haidt – “The Righteous Mind – why good people are divided by politics and religion”; Penguin Books, 2013
Michael Tomasello – “A Natural History of Human Morality”; Harvard University Press, 2016 (advanced)
Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce – “Wild Justice – The Moral Lives of Animals”; The University of Chicago Press, 2009
Tom L Beauchamp and James F Childress – “Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Fifth Edition)”; Oxford University Press, New York 2001
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy – “Mothers and Others – the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding”; Harvard University Press, 2009
Penny Spikins – “How Compassion Made Us Human – the evolutionary origins of tenderness, trust and morality”; Pen and Sword Archaeology, 2015
An introduction to south Asian morality:
Richard Shweder; N C Much; M Mahapatra; and L Park – “The ‘big three’ of morality (autonomy, community, and divinity), and the ‘big three’ explanations of suffering” in A Brandt and P Rozin (Eds.), “Morality and health” (pp. 119–169) Routledge, New York 1997