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From Biology to Consciousness to Morality

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: Social animals are provisioned with pro-social orientations that operate to transcend self-interest.Morality, as used here, describes human versions of such orientations.We explore the evolutionary antecedents of morality in the context of emergentism, giving considerable attention to the biological traits that undergird awareness and our emergent human forms of mind.We suggest that our moral frames of mind emerge from our primate prosocial capacities, transfigured and valenced by our symbolic languages, cultures, and religions.

Source: Tradition and Discovery The Polanyi Society Periodical

DOI: 10.5840/traddisc2003/200430338

Authors: Ursula Goodenough, Terrence Deacon, The Polanyi Society

Institutions: Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4250276665

FWCI: 0.478

Cites: 7

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10