开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 6 weeks
所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 社会科学 大学或机构: Yale University(耶鲁大学) 授课老师: Paul Bloom |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/moralities
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How can we explain kindness and cruelty? Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Why do people so often disagree about moral issues? This course explores the psychological foundations of our moral lives.
Please note: This is a rough outline.
Week 1: The Big Questions
What
is morality, anyway? What are the big debates in the field of moral psychology?
Week 2: Empathy
What role does empathy play in our moral lives? Is more empathy necessarily
a good thing? And what can we learn from the study of those who seemingly
lack normal moral feelings, such as violent psychopaths?
Week 3: Universals
Here, we ask about which aspects of morality are universal. We discuss
evolution, cross-cultural research, and—most of all—the fascinating new
science of the moral life of babies.
Week 4: Family, friends, and strangers
Our moral feelings are usually most powerful towards our kin (such as
our parents and our children) and our friends and allies. We will discuss
these special bonds, and use the tools of behavioral economics to explore
the controversial question of whether we are ever truly altruistic to strangers.
Week 5: Differences
How does culture influence our moral thought and moral action? What role
does religion play? Why are some of us conservative and others liberal,
and how do political differences influence our sense of right and wrong?
Week 6: Situations
We’ll discuss some clever studies that show how our moral behavior is
powerfully influenced—often at the unconscious level—by the situations
that we find ourselves in. Such findings raise some hard problems about
determinism, free will, and moral responsibility. Most of all, if our actions
are determined by our brains, our genes, and our situations, in what sense
can we be said to be moral agents? The course will end by trying to address
this question.
How can we explain kindness and cruelty? Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Why do people so often disagree about moral issues? This course explores the psychological foundations of our moral lives.
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