LEADER 03169nam 2200553 450 001 9910821382603321 005 20230721005324.0 010 $a0-271-04992-8 010 $a0-271-03601-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271036014 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722876 035 $a(OCoLC)316751358 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532182 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000239576 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205812 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239576 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10257403 035 $a(PQKB)11582347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224062 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_86436 035 $a(DE-B1597)583839 035 $a(OCoLC)1266227883 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271036014 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722876 100 $a20200929d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe roots of morality /$fMaxine Sheets-Johnstone 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (466 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-271-03392-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [412]-435) and indexes. 330 $aThis book argues the case for a foundationalist ethics centrally based on an empirical understanding of human nature. For Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, "an ethics formulated on the foundations of anything other than human nature, hence on anything other than an identification of pan-cultural human realities, lacks solid empirical moorings. It easily loses itself in isolated hypotheticals, reductionist scenarios, or theoretical abstractions-in the prisoner's dilemma, selfish genes, dedicated brain modules, evolutionary altruism, or psychological egoism, for example-or it easily becomes itself an ethical system over and above the ethics it formulates," such as the deontological ethics of Kantian categorical imperatives, the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, or the ethics of care.Taking her cue from Hume, especially his Treatise on Human Nature, where he grounds "the moral sense" in human nature seen as always in tension between the natural tendencies of selfish acquisitiveness and sympathy for others, Sheets-Johnstone pursues her phenomenological investigation of the natural basis of human morality by directing her attention, first in Part I, to what is traditionally considered the dark side of human nature, and then, in Part II, to the positive side. The tension between the two calls for an interdisciplinary therapeutic resolution, which she offers in the Epilogue by arguing for the value of a moral education that enlightens humans about their own human nature, highlighting both the socialization of fear and the importance of play and creativity. 606 $aEthics 615 0$aEthics. 676 $a170 700 $aSheets-Johnstone$b Maxine$01626209 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821382603321 996 $aThe roots of morality$94030699 997 $aUNINA