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| Content Provider | frontiers |
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| Author | Trettenbrein, Patrick C. |
| Abstract | A book review on The Altruistic Brain: How we are Naturally GoodEdited by DonaldW. Pfaff, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0199377466As a rule, a natural scientist writing on an evidently philosophical subject matter sets the average philosopher's antennae quivering. Nevertheless, (cognitive) neuroscience has matured as a field of research and its practitioners are now ready and able to interpret the consequences of their research for our understanding of the individual as well as society as a whole. In The altruistic brain Donald Pfaff sets out to and succeeds in doing just this when he puts forward what he calls Altruistic Brain Theory (ABT). Essentially, he postulates that findings from neuroscience indicate that as human beings we are “wired” to be good, just as we are “wired” to acquire natural language(s). Pfaff's book, which is written for a non-specialist audience, thus presents and interprets evidence in favor of an idea already expressed by Wilhelm von Humboldt who declared that humankind is intrinsically more inclined to philanthropic than self-serving actions (1792/1851, p. 98).The book is divided into two parts, the first one introducing ABT, the second part being a discussion of the theory's implications for individual behavior, society as a whole, and jurisprudence. Intriguingly, ABT is simple insofar as that it posits that the brain processes altruism in only five steps, all of which are rooted in well-understood neurocognitive mechanisms. P... |
| ISSN | 16641078 |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00307 |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2015-03-18 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Altruistic Brain Theory Moral Psychology Linguistic analogy Altruism Morality |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Psychology |
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