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19 The Moral Mind: How Five Sets of Innate Intuitions Guide the Development of Many Culture‐Specific Virtues, and Perhaps Even Modules
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This chapter discusses how morality might be partially innate, meaning organized, to some extent, in advance of experience. It begins by arguing for a broader conception of morality and suggests that most of the discussion of innateness to date has not been about morality per se; it has been about whether the psychology of harm and fairness is innate. Five hypotheses about the origins of moral knowledge and value are considered, and one of them (a form of flexible and generative modularity) is endorsed as being the best candidate. The importance of narrativity in moral functioning is discussed. In some respects, this is another corrective to what is seen as an overemphasis on deductive and calculative conceptions of value and rationality among both philosophers and psychologists. It is shown that a narrative approach to morality fits well with the nativist ‘five foundations’ view developed in the first part of the chapter, and also helps to explain how the intuitive, evolved foundations of morality are elaborated by cultural activity into the complex, diverse moral functioning that mature human beings display.
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“Haidt and Joseph [19] identifed fve sets or moral evolutionary intuitions.”
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“These foundations refer to harm/care (e.g., emotional or physical harm), fairness/reciprocity (e.g., considerations of justice, fair treatment, honesty and cheating), ingroup/loyalty (e.g., conficts of interests between groups, group membership, betrayal), authority/respect (e.g., violation of authority, hierarchies, obedience), and purity/sanctity (e.g., chastity, control of desires).”
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“For this study, we applied the MFQ30, as the suggested tool to provide a good measurement when analyzing the corresponding items per moral foundation.”
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“This aligns with previous fndings about feeling of guilt when acting immorally in games [17,20,47].”
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“Haidt and Joseph [19] indicate that the harm/care foundation relates to emotional, physical harm, compassion, and empathy, whereas the foundation of fairness/reciprocity is represented by considerations of unfair treatment and justice.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Haidt, J., & Joseph, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Virginia (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Venue
- The Innate Mind, Volume 3
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York
- Published
- 2008-04-01
- Pages
- 367-392
- OpenAlex
- W2489929582
- Semantic Scholar
- efac3ee31af4428e2cd874102bc2c8a5a12c5a81
- Cited by
- 650
- References
- 548
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 33.92
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Social Sciences › Education › Values and Moral Education
- Keywords
- moral psychology, modularity, moral values, fairness, narrativity, moral foundations, rationality
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