C. R. Hallpike

Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Social Structure and Moral Development

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development combines insights of developmental psychology and cultural anthropology to examine the development of moral thinking. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of small-scale communities of hunter-gatherers and farmers in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, C.R. Hallpike studies the means by which individual thinking interacts with complex social factors to produce moral ideas and the effects of worldview on ethical systems. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498536332
• Artikelnr.: 47666686

Autorenporträt

C.R. Hallpike is emeritus professor of anthropology at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I Relativism Chapter II The Social Basis of Moral Ideas Chapter III
The Psychology of Moral Development Chapter IV Social Evolution and Moral
Judgment Chapter V Atomistic Societies Chapter VI Corporate Order Chapter
VII Transcendence