Just Babies

Just Babies

2013 • 273 pages

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This book tries to show how our morality is part innate (nature) and part taught (nurture). It is presumed that most or all of our morality is learned behavior, but the author shows how some basic traits in babies could be the basis of our morality a lot more than we think.

The last chapter tying things together I thought was quite good. The overall concept seemed to feel like in the end even though babies have some built in evolutionary morality, we need to use reason to define us as humans and moral humans at that.

November 7, 2022