Storia naturale della morale umana

Tomasello's much acclaimed works address the perennial question of what makes human thinking unique, by using evidences drawn, mostly, from experimental devices of his making at the Max Planck Institute; settings meant to compare child's (toddlers and preschoolers) and apes' skills at spatial, instr Leggi tutto

Yazar insan ahlakının maymun atalarımızdan itibaren oluşumunu ve gelişimini evrimsel tarih perspektifinden inceliyor. İnsanın maymundan ayrılan en temel işlevinin işbirliğinin ve kültürün oluşumu olduğunu savunuyor. Maymunların karşısındakini ezmesi yerine, İlk insanların başkalarının çıkarlarını ke Leggi tutto

Tomasello's book presents a fascinating mixture of evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, speculative anthropology, and moral philosophy. His basic argument is that morality evolved through various stages as a function of the evolving social relationships between human ancestors, from kinshi Leggi tutto

Ahlakın esasen biyolojik evrime dayandığını, herhangi bir duygudaşlıktan çok rasyonel nedenlerle olduğunu savunan bir kuram üzerineydi. Maymunlarla ilgili kısımda belgesel izliyor gibiydim.

The book is very dense and makes a lot of claims that are not well supported. I Tried to read it several times but failed. The idea of morality as a form of cooperation was quite interesting though. The book could have been written better, it’s too dry.

For the vast majority of recorded human history, we humans have believed that morality comes from somewhere outside of us; from “above,” from the ether, from some kind of benevolent creator, etc. Even as we have learned more and more about how humans evolved from apes who evolved from “lower” animal Leggi tutto

There's an idea in psychology that you learn things better if they're presented in a less approachable way, because you have to activate more critical thinking skills to parse them in the first place. If that's true, then this book is great. It's kind of astonishing how much about morality we take f Leggi tutto

Through experimental evidence in primatology, anthropology, child development and psychology, Tomasello describes how cognitive and psychological sophistication engenders interdependence-based sympathy. Mutualistic collaboration and self-projective perspectival cogitation are uniquely human and furt Leggi tutto

One of the outstanding books in the evolutionary literature on human morality. He connects the flowering of human eusocial behavior to a specific evolutionary environment: the shift to highly collaborative foraging/hunting subsistence. His theory: "obligate foraging" (much as with the Stag Hunt game Leggi tutto