Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition Audiobook (Free)

In Conscience, Patricia S. Churchland, the distinguished creator of neurophilosophy, explores how moral systems occur from our physical selves in conjunction with environmental demands.

All cultural groups have ideals for behavior, despite the fact that ethics vary among different cultures and among all those within each culture. In attempting to comprehend why, Churchland brings together an understanding of the influences of nature and nurture. She looks to evolution to elucidate how, from delivery, our about Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition brains are configured to form bonds, to cooperate, and to treatment. Conscience delves into scientific tests, particularly the exciting work on twins, to deepen our understanding of whether people have a predisposition to accept specific honest stands. Study on psychopaths illuminates the data about those that follow no moral system and the explanations science gives for these troubling individuals.

Churchland then changes to philosophy-that of Socrates, Aquinas, and contemporary thinkers like Owen Flanagan-to explore why morality is central to all or any societies, how it is transmitted through the generations, and why different cultures live by different morals. Her unparalleled ability to join ideas rarely placed into dialogue provides light to a topic that speaks to the meaning of being human.