Part 1 - structure of morality | ├------ Instrumental normativity | | | ├------ Pleasure and Eros | | | ├------ Origin of normativity | | | ├------ Evolutionary self-selection for normativity | | | ├------ The metaphor of the flower in the garden | | | ├------ Properties of instrumental normativity | | | ├------ Fact/value distinction | | | ├------ Naturalistic fallacy | | | ├------ Normativity in non-human animals | | | └------ Map of normativity | ├------ Moral normativity | | | ├------ Moral and instrumental oughts | | | ├------ Dual-level psychology of cooperation | | | ├------ Commitment and legitimacy | | | ├------ Legitimacy and responsibility | | | ├------ Moral obligation | | | └------ The ideal collaborative partner | ├------ What is morality? | | | ├------ Morality and humility | | | └------ Where does morality "come from"? | ├------ Theory of moral domains | | | ├------ Features of moral domains | | | ├------ Features of moral domains as sources of normativity and obligation | | | ├------ List of features | | | ├------ Obligations of helping and fairness | | | ├------ Moral principle | | | ├------ The goals-methods model of moral domains | | | ├------ This model unifies existing ethical systems | | | ├------ Rightness of action and rightness of goal | | | ├------ The Pirate Code of Conduct | | | ├------ Just war theory and the independence thesis | | | ├------ Mutual benefit in moral domains | | | ├------ Relativism and universalism | | | ├------ Evolutionary ethics and moral realism | | | ├------ Evoking moral domains: the metaphor of the radar screen | | | ├------ Is morality rational? | | | ├------ Virtue and the goals-methods theory of moral domains | | | ├------ Intention | | | ├------ List of evolved moral domains | | | | | ├------ 1) Collaborative foraging for mutual benefit | | | | | ├------ 2) Patriarchy | | | | | ├------ 3) Sexual pair-bonding | | | | | ├------ 4) Parenting | | | | | └------ 5) Kin selection | | | ├------ Other (non-evolved) moral domains | | | | | ├------ Organised religion | | | | | ├------ Medical ethics | | | | | └------ Financial industry regulatory body | | | ├------ Moral purity, physical and moral disgust | | | ├------ Trading the sacred for the profane | | | ├------ Purity in the Hindu religion | | | └------ Moral anger | ├------ Features of collaboration | | | ├------ Joint goal | | | ├------ Role ideals | | | ├------ Joint agent "we" | | | ├------ Joint commitment to collaborate | | | ├------ Mutual respect and deservingness | | | ├------ Partner choice | | | ├------ Cooperative identity and reputation | | | ├------ Moral injury | | | ├------ Collective moral identity | | | ├------ Partner control | | | ├------ Respectful protest | | | └------ Duty and responsibility | ├------ Large-group morality | | | ├------ Interdependence and group loyalty | | | ├------ Conventions, moral norms, and social norms | | | | | ├------ Conventional and moral norms | | | | | ├------ Social norms | | | | | ├------ Conventions, similarity, and mutual trust | | | | | ├------ Objective right and wrong | | | | | ├------ Objective justice: distributive, procedural, and moral | | | | | ├------ Institutions | | | | | ├------ Religion | | | | | └------ Law | | | ├------ Moral identity and cultural rationality | | | ├------ Moral self-governance | | | └------ The social contract and its legitimacy | ├------ Competition and dominance | | | ├------ Authority ranking | | | ├------ Liberty, autonomy, and egalitarianism | | | ├------ Modern egalitarian societies | | | ├------ U-shaped history of human hierarchy? | | | ├------ Self-domestication of the human race | | | ├------ Transition from egalitarianism to inequality | | | ├------ Young children are instinctively prepared for social situations of hierarchy and dominance | | | └------ Prehistory of warfare | ├------ The Moral Compass | └------ The Stakeholder Principle | ├------ Interdependence and moral domains | ├------ Interdependence and collaborative foraging for mutual benefit | ├------ Hamilton’s Rule | ├------ Interdependence through human history | └------ Ultimate and proximate motivations for helping Part 2 - moral values | ├------ Perfect Compassion | | | ├------ Dark traits | | | ├------ Basis of morality | | | ├------ Currency of morality | | | ├------ Charity and deservingness | | | ├------ Rightness and moral authority | | | ├------ Doing one’s best | | | ├------ Partial (subjective) and impartial (objective) moral reasoning | | | ├------ Contingent morality and ethics | | | └------ Distribution of benefit and harm from the perspective of the ego | ├------ Fairness | | | ├------ Types of sharing | | | ├------ Two-step evolution of fairness | | | ├------ Distributive justice and collaboration | | | ├------ Fairness as a moral (sub)domain | | | ├------ Evolution of sharing | | | ├------ Sharing in response to need | | | ├------ Sharing proportionately | | | ├------ Inequity aversion | | | ├------ Self-other equivalence | | | | | └------ Self-other equivalence and the genealogy of morality | | | ├------ Fairness to others | | | ├------ Resentment and indignation | | | ├------ Free riders | | | ├------ Types of justice | | | ├------ Justice and judgement | | | ├------ John Rawls and the veil of ignorance | | | └------ Experimental results | ├------ Reciprocity | | | ├------ Types of reciprocity | | | | | ├------ 1) tit-for-tat reciprocity | | | | | | | ├------ Contingent cooperation | | | | | | | ├------ Forgiveness | | | | | | | ├------ Tit-for-tat reciprocity and game theory | | | | | | | ├------ Punishment | | | | | | | └------ Islands of cooperation | | | | | ├------ 2) indirect reciprocity | | | | | ├------ 3) downstream reciprocity | | | | | ├------ 4) attitudinal reciprocity | | | | | ├------ 5) long-term “buddy” reciprocity | | | | | └------ 6) generalised reciprocity | | | ├------ What makes reciprocity tick | | | ├------ Reciprocity is a survival skill in hunter-gatherer societies | | | └------ References for this chapter | ├------ Targeted helping | | | ├------ Sympathetic distress within the brain leads to a wish to help | | | ├------ Empathic concern and taking action | | | ├------ Empathic distress and compassion | | | ├------ Helping in social groups | | | └------ Generalised care | ├------ Empathy | | | ├------ Cognitive empathy | | | ├------ Emotional resonance | | | | | ├------ 1) body mimicry and neural mimicry | | | | | ├------ 2) emotional contagion; mirroring | | | | | ├------ 3) vicarious arousal and alarm | | | | | └------ 4) sympathy | | | ├------ Empathic concern and helping behaviour | | | ├------ Perspective taking and helping behaviour | | | ├------ Perspective taking and cooperation | | | ├------ Perspective taking and exploitation | | | └------ Additional references | ├------ The Golden Rule | | | ├------ Attitudinal reciprocity | | | ├------ “Imagine self in position of other” perspective taking | | | └------ “Imagine other” perspective taking | ├------ Loyalty and unconditional love | | | ├------ Spectrum of conditional benefit and harm | | | ├------ Loyalty and the Stakeholder Principle | | | ├------ Loyalty to an ideology | | | └------ Trait unconditional empathic concern | ├------ Respecting property rights | ├------ Integrity | ├------ Good manners | | | └------ The Montagu Principle | ├------ Self-discipline | | | ├------ Self-control and duty | | | └------ Self control and meditation | ├------ Cooperative breeding | | | ├------ Enhanced prosocial perspective taking in humans | | | ├------ Existing cognitive skills of great apes | | | ├------ Competitive social life of other great apes | | | ├------ Cooperation in humans: thinking and acting together | | | ├------ Sharing and tolerance | | | ├------ Hypothesis for the evolutionary history of cooperative breeding | | | └------ References for this chapter | ├------ Patriarchy | | | ├------ System of social norms | | | ├------ Patriarchy is more powerful in humans than other species | | | ├------ U-shaped history of human patriarchy | | | ├------ Female resistance to patriarchy in primates | | | ├------ Does patriarchy have a biological origin? | | | ├------ Patriarchy is not inevitable | | | ├------ Patriarchy and narcissism | | | ├------ Patriarchy is a gilded cage | | | └------ The reasonable man and the reasonable woman | ├------ Personhood | | | ├------ Kant’s “ends and means”: treating every human with dignity and respect | | | ├------ Human rights | | | ├------ Circles of concern | | | ├------ Meg De Amasi: interview by her daughter Ena Miller | | | └------ Fundamental attribution error | └------ Dark and light traits | ├------ D, the dark factor of personality | ├------ D and Perfect Compassion | ├------ Multi-dimensional nature of D | ├------ Dark traits | ├------ Traits high in D | | | ├------ Anti-social personality disorder | | | ├------ Controlling behaviour | | | ├------ Egotism | | | ├------ Enduring personality change after a catastrophic experience | | | ├------ Entitlement (psychological) | | | ├------ Grandiosity | | | ├------ Machiavellianism | | | ├------ Moral disengagement | | | ├------ Narcissism | | | ├------ Psychopathy | | | ├------ Sadism | | | ├------ Self-interest | | | ├------ Spite | | | └------ Toxicity (social) | ├------ Confusion between antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders and psychopathy | | | └------ Overlap between NPD / ASPD traits and psychopathic traits | ├------ D and political extremism | ├------ Light traits | ├------ The light triad | ├------ A quiet ego | └------ Online surveys Part 3 – psychology and spirituality ├------ Emotions | | | ├------ The Smoke Detector Principle | | | ├------ Naming emotions for conscious processing | | | └------ Equanimity | ├------ The ego | | | ├------ Monitoring and the “default state” | | | ├------ "Your Restless Mind" | | | ├------ Meditation | | | | | ├------ Taming the wild buffalo | | | | | ├------ Clear sight and self-honesty | | | | | └------ Acceptance and moral action | | | └------ "Be Soft" | ├------ Ego defences | | | ├------ Passive aggression | | | ├------ Puppet strings and the Grey Rock | | | ├------ Classical ego defences | | | ├------ Mature ego defenses | | | └------ References | └------ Desire and “original sin” | ├------ Short term and long term benefits | ├------ Seeking to thrive through crime or unethical means | ├------ Maladaptive, unconscious, immature ego defences | ├------ Relying on sensual pleasure to make us happy | ├------ Attachments | ├------ Striving | └------ Clinging to experience Bibliography