Surprising and remarkable...
Toggling Between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.-- The Boston Globe Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them).
A major achievement from a rising star in a new scientific field, Moral Tribes will refashion your deepest beliefs about how Moral thinking works and how it can work better..
Our tribal emotions make us fight--sometimes with bombs, sometimes with words--often with life-and-death stakes.
But they also make us tribal animals, turning Us against Them.
Point-and-shoot emotions make us social animals, turning Me into Us.
The brain\'s manual mode is its capacity for deliberate reasoning, which makes our thinking flexible.
Our point-and-shoot settings are our emotions--efficient, automated programs honed by evolution, culture, and personal experience.
Greene compares the human brain to a dual-mode camera, with point-and-shoot automatic settings (portrait, landscape) as well as a manual mode.
A grand synthesis of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights the way forward.
We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and we wonder where, if at all, we can find our common ground.
As the world shrinks, the Moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling.
But modern times have forced the world\'s tribes into a shared space, resulting in epic clashes of values along with unprecedented opportunities.
Surprising and remarkable...
Toggling Between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.-- The Boston Globe Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them)
