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Bert Musschenga & Anton van Harskamp 
What Makes Us Moral? On the capacities and conditions for being moral 

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This book addresses the question of what it means to be moral and which capacities one needs to be moral. It questions whether empathy is a cognitive or an affective capacity, or perhaps both. As most moral beings behave immorally from time to time, the authors ask which factors cause or motivate people to translate their moral beliefs into action? Specially addressed is the question of what is the role of internal factors such as willpower, commitment, character, and what is the role of external, situational and structural factors? The questions are considered from various (disciplinary) perspectives.​
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Table of Content

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


Andrés 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 subjunctivespace


 


About the authors


 


Index of names and subjects


Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9789400763432 ● File size 3.0 MB ● Editor Bert Musschenga & Anton van Harskamp ● Publisher Springer Netherland ● City Dordrecht ● Country NL ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2788561 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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