Moral tribes : emotion, reason and the gap between us and them

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Label

Moral tribes : emotion, reason and the gap between us and them

Title remainder

emotion, reason and the gap between us and them

Statement of responsibility

Joshua Greene

Creator

• trueGreene, Joshua David, 1974-

Author

• trueGreene, Joshua David, 1974-

Subject

• trueEthics
• trueEmotions
• trueCivilization
• trueMoral conditions

Language

eng

Summary

Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space, creating conflicts of interest and clashes of values, along with unprecedented opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling. We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and we wonder where, if at all, we can find our common ground. A grand synthesis of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights the way forward. Here the human brain is revealed to be like a dual-mode camera, with point-and-shoot automatic settings ('portrait', 'landscape') as well as a manual mode. Our point-and-shoot settings are our emotions-efficient, automated programs honed by evolution, culture, and personal experience. The human brain's manual mode is its capacity for deliberate reasoning, which makes our thinking flexible. Our point-and-shoot emotions make us social animals, turning Me into Us. But they also make us tribal animals, turning Us against Them. Our tribal emotions make us fight, sometimes with bombs, sometimes with words, and often with life-and-death stakes

Cataloging source

NLE

Dewey number

170

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult