Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in DialogueOxford University Press, 2002 M03 28 The concept of altruism, or disinterested concern for another's welfare, has been discussed by everyone from theologians to psychologists to biologists. In this cutting edge book, evolutionary, neurological, developmental, psychological, social, cultural, and religious aspects of altruistic behavior are examined by renowned researchers. The result is a collaborative and provocative look at one of humanity's essential and defining characteristics. |
Contenido
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Morality Altruism and Love | 40 |
The Tradition of Agape | 51 |
Conclusion to Part I | 65 |
Conceptual Mapping | 72 |
Addressing the Altruism Question Experimentally | 89 |
Introduction to Part IV | 249 |
A Note on the Neurobiology of Emotions | 264 |
Impairment of Interpersonal Social Behavior Caused | 271 |
The Communication of Emotions and the Possibility | 284 |
Empathy Evolution and Altruism | 309 |
Conclusion to Part IV | 328 |
Science and Religion on the Nature of Love | 335 |
The Evolutionary | 346 |
Explicating Altruism | 106 |
Faces of Heroism | 123 |
Conclusion to Part II | 140 |
Introduction to Part III | 145 |
A Darwinian Naturalists Perspective on Altruism | 151 |
Buddhist Perspectives from the Past | 362 |
Conclusion to Part V | 376 |
References | 475 |
Index | 491 |
Términos y frases comunes
action agape agape love altru altruistic behavior altruistic love altruistic motivation animals ASSESSMENT OF OUTCOME ASSESSMENT OF PREDICTOR Batson biological bonobo brain Cambridge Chapter cognitive compassion compassionate love concept condition cooperation correlated cultural Damasio Darwin Darwinian effect egoistic Eisenberg emotional emotional contagion empathic concern empathy ethics evolution evolutionary evolutionary biology evolutionary psychology experience expression feelings females genes genetic group selection havior helpful natures helping behavior human nature inclusive fitness interaction Journal of Personality MAIN RESULTS males measures montane voles moral natural selection object organism other-regarding OUTCOME VARIABLES oxytocin Personality and Social perspective taking positive prairie vole PREDICTOR VARIABLES prefrontal cortex prosocial prosocial behavior questionnaire reciprocal altruism relationship religion religious reproductive rescuers role scale scores self-interest selfish sense significant situations social behavior Social Psychology sociobiology species Study theory tion tradition understanding VARIABLES Participants vasopressin voles Waal Wilson York
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Página 213 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Página 193 - There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Página 251 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Página 204 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Página 193 - Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Página 377 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Página 204 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
Página 24 - It must not be forgotten that although a high standard of morality gives but a slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over the other men of the same tribe, yet that an increase in the number of wellendowed men and an advancement in the standard of morality will certainly give an immense advantage to one tribe over another.
Página 216 - Yet given a full chance to act in his own interest, nothing but expediency will restrain him from brutalizing, from maiming, from murdering — his brother, his mate, his parent, or his child. Scratch an "altruist," and watch a "hypocrite
Página 338 - And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.