The New England Journal of Medicine‘s February 8 edition is out today with a review of an interesting book, Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong, by Marc Hauser.
Marc Hauser’s groundbreaking book advances a new theory of moral judgment, synthesizing a great deal of work in neuroscience, psychology, and ethology, as well as the author’s own recent experimental work. Hauser aims to demonstrate that morality is innate in the way that language is innate: not in its precise content, but in its form. Just as, according to Noam Chomsky, each child comes into the world with a brain wired for language acquisition, so is each of us born ready to acquire a moral system.
Interesting.
JR
