Taming the devil within us

Taming the devil within us

Moral intuitions also emerge from concerns such as betraying a coalition, contaminating oneself or one's community, and defying or insulting an authority. Because people feel that moral infractions are legitimately punishable, an expansive definition of morality provides an expansive list of of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2011-10, Vol.478 (7369), p.309-311
1. Verfasser: Pinker, Steven
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Animal cognition
Child abuse & neglect
Civil war
Cognition & reasoning
comment
Empathy
Homosexuality
Humanities and Social Sciences
Laboratory animals
Morality
multidisciplinary
Murders & murder attempts
Religion
Religious persecution
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Violence
War
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Zusammenfassung:Moral intuitions also emerge from concerns such as betraying a coalition, contaminating oneself or one's community, and defying or insulting an authority. Because people feel that moral infractions are legitimately punishable, an expansive definition of morality provides an expansive list of offences for which the sinner can be violently punished, including homosexuality, licentiousness, blasphemy, heresy, indecency and desecration of sacred symbols.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/478309a