《善恶之源》内容简介
婴儿有道德感吗？我们是如何成为有道德之人的？理性思考对道德决策来说无足轻重吗？保罗•布卢姆把心理学、行为经济学、进化生物学和哲学的深刻思想融为一炉，力图探索我们究竟如何超越先天道德的局限。与此同时，他还研究了黑猩猩、心理变态者和常春藤教授们的道德，探索了我们对性、政治、宗教和种族问题的令人困扰的道德感觉。
作者引述了美国耶鲁大学的开创性研究，证明婴儿早在能开口讲话和行走之前，就有能力判断他人行为的好坏，就能产生共情和同情，就能产生原始的正义感。但人类的先天道德仍然十分有限，有时候还会酿成悲剧，比如我们天生就仇视陌生人，也容易产生偏执和狭隘。布卢姆还指出理性与道德判断的紧密关系，理性和思索能让我们作出道德决定，比如奴隶制是错误的。归根结底，我们可以通过想象、同情和我们人类独有的理性思考能力，超越我们生来就具备的原始道德情感，超越婴儿的局限。
众多知名学者、专家推荐。美国哈佛大学心理学教授史蒂芬•平克：婴儿拥有丰富的认知和道德生活，这是21世纪心理学领域最有趣的发现之一。但对婴儿认知与道德的研究如何揭示人类的本性？保罗•布卢姆用他标志性的写作风格——清晰、深刻、敏锐和优雅，通过本书为我们作出解答。《正义之心》作者乔纳森•海特：保罗•布卢姆向我们展现出，一名一流科学家如何把矛盾的发现、广泛的研究和深厚的人文关怀结合为一体，为人类的本质勾勒出了一幅细致入微、令人惊奇的肖像，描绘了它的美好、恐怖和奇妙。清华大学心理学系主任彭凯平：善恶之争是人类生活永恒的主题之一。但从婴儿的善恶起源探讨道德的冲突、局限、转化、超越与升华，是一种另辟蹊径、引人入胜的新角度。这让我们更加深刻地认识到，用科学的心理学研究人类的道德，也许更能够抓住人性的本质。
作者简介
保罗•布卢姆（耶鲁大学公开课最受欢迎导师、著名认知心理学家、TED演讲人）
耶鲁大学最受欢迎、最风趣的心理学教授。他的心理学导论课是耶鲁大学最受欢迎的公开课之一，超过500人选修，全球有上千万人观看、学习这一公开课的视频。
《科学》杂志评出的Twitter上最有影响力的50位明星科学家之一，美国哲学与心理学协会前任主席，《行为与脑科学》杂志联合主编。
因出色的研究和教学工作而获奖无数。他的文章屡见于《纽约时报杂志》、《自然》、《纽约客》、《科学》等刊物。著有畅销书《快感：为什么它让我们欲罢不能》。
The Source of Good and Evil
Do babies have moral sense? How do we become moral people? Does rational thought matter little to moral decision making? Paul Bloom combines deep ideas from psychology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy to explore how we can transcend the limits of innate morality. At the same time, he examines the morals of chimpanzees, psychopaths and Ivy League professors, exploring our troubling moral feelings about sex, politics, religion and race.
The authors cite groundbreaking research from Yale University in the United States that shows that long before babies can speak or walk, they have the ability to judge the good or bad behavior of others, develop empathy and compassion, and develop a primitive sense of justice. But the innate morality of human beings is still very limited, and sometimes it can lead to tragedy, for example, we are born to hate strangers, and we are prone to paranoia and narrowness. Bloom also pointed out that reason is closely related to moral judgment, and that reason and reflection allow us to make moral decisions, such as that slavery is wrong. Ultimately, we can transcend the primitive moral emotions we are born with, the limitations of infancy, through imagination, compassion, and our uniquely human capacity for rational thought.
Many well-known scholars and experts recommend. Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard University: One of the most interesting discoveries in 21st century psychology is that babies have a rich cognitive and moral life. But what does the study of infant cognition and morality reveal about human nature? Paul Bloom uses his trademark writing style - clarity, depth, subtlety and elegance - to answer the question. Jonathan HaidT, AUTHOR of The Mind of Justice: Paul Bloom shows how a leading scientist can combine contradictory findings, extensive research, and deep human concern to create a nuanced and surprising portrait of the essence of humanity, in all its beauty, horror, and wonder. Peng Kaiping, Director of the psychology Department of Tsinghua University: The struggle between good and evil is one of the eternal themes of human life. However, it is a new and fascinating Angle to explore the conflict, limitation, transformation, transcendence and sublimation of morality from the origin of good and evil of infants. This makes us more deeply realize that using scientific psychology to study human morality may be more able to grasp the essence of human nature.
About the author
Paul Bloom (Yale's most popular open course instructor, renowned cognitive psychologist, TED speaker)
Yale's most popular and funniest psychology professor. His Introductory Psychology course is one of the most popular open coursework at Yale, with more than 500 enrollees and tens of millions of viewers worldwide.
Named one of the 50 most influential star scientists on Twitter by Science magazine, he is a former president of the American Philosophical and Psychological Association and co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
He has received numerous awards for his outstanding research and teaching work. His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Nature, The New Yorker, and Science. He is the author of the bestselling book High: Why It Keeps Us Hooked.
