Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development

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.
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Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development

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.
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Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development

Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development

by C.R. Hallpike
Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development

Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development

by C.R. Hallpike

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498536332
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 12/09/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 258
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Chapter IRelativism
Chapter IIThe Social Basis of Moral Ideas
Chapter IIIThe Psychology of Moral Development
Chapter IVSocial Evolution and Moral Judgment
Chapter VAtomistic Societies
Chapter VICorporate Order
Chapter VIITranscendence
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