{"id":2064,"date":"2010-05-10T00:20:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2024-02-24T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T10:01:20","slug":"the-moral-life-of-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/icci-blog\/the-moral-life-of-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moral Life of Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Today&#8217;s New York Times Magazine, Paul Bloom has a long interesting and easy-read piece (freely available <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Moral-Life-of-Babies-The-New-York-Times.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>) on &#8220;The Moral Life of Babies&#8221; that concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Morality, then, is a synthesis of the biological and the cultural, of the unlearned, the discovered and the invented. Babies possess certain moral foundations &#8211; the capacity and willingness to judge the actions of others, some sense of justice, gut responses to altruism and nastiness. Regardless of how smart we are, if we didn&#8217;t start with this basic apparatus, we would be nothing more than amoral agents, ruthlessly driven to pursue our self-interest. But our capacities as babies are sharply limited. It is the insights of rational individuals that make a truly universal and unselfish morality something that our species can aspire to.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/09cover-sfSpan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18550\" src=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/09cover-sfSpan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/09cover-sfSpan.jpg 395w, https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/09cover-sfSpan-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Today&#8217;s New York Times Magazine, Paul Bloom has a long interesting and easy-read piece (freely available here) on &#8220;The Moral Life of Babies&#8221; that concludes: &#8220;Morality, then, is a synthesis of the biological and the cultural, of the unlearned, the discovered and the invented. 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