![]() ![]() Drawing on insights from psychology, behavioural economics, evolutionary biology and philosophy, Bloom explores how we have come to surpass these limitations. We are naturally hostile to strangers, prone to parochialism and bigotry. Drawing on groundbreaking research, Bloom demonstrates that even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others' actions act to soothe those in distress and feel empathy, guilt, pride and righteous anger. ![]() Now, in Just Babies, Paul Bloom argue that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Most of us take it for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society - and especially parents - to transform them from little sociopaths into civilised beings. Psychologists have long believed that we begin life as moral blank slates. ![]()
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