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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.

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Chapter I Relativism Chapter II The Social Basis of Moral Ideas Chapter III The Psychology of Moral Development Chapter IV Social Evolution and Moral Judgment Chapter V Atomistic Societies Chapter VI Corporate Order Chapter VII Transcendence

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      Publisher: Lexington Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/15/2018 12:07:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781498536349, 978-1498536349
      ISBN10: 1498536344

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter I Relativism Chapter II The Social Basis of Moral Ideas Chapter III The Psychology of Moral Development Chapter IV Social Evolution and Moral Judgment Chapter V Atomistic Societies Chapter VI Corporate Order Chapter VII Transcendence

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