{"product_id":"morality-made-visible-9780367660444","title":"Morality Made Visible","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in the social sciences. This book is the first full study of his moral and social theory, focusing on the key elements of his theory of moral emotions as presented in \u003ci\u003eThe Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas \u003c\/i\u003eand summarised in \u003ci\u003eEthical Relativity\u003c\/i\u003e. Examining Westermarck's evolutionary approach to the human mind, the author introduces important new themes to scholarship on Westermarck, including the pivotal role of emotions in human reciprocity, the evolutionary origins of human society, social solidarity, the emergence and maintenance of moral norms and moral responsibility. With attention to Westermarck's debt to David Hume and Adam Smith, whose views on human nature, moral sentiments and sympathy Westermarck combined with Darwinian evolutionary thinking, \u003ci\u003eMorality Made Visible\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the importance of the theory o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Otto Pipatti has done a great service by writing a brief, clear and careful book on Westermarck’s core moral and social ideas [...]. What Pipatti has given us is a compelling and very well researched monograph on an unjustifiably overlooked major figure in the social sciences.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAaron Garrett\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Scottish Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1. Research Programme on Morality 2. The Evolution of Westermarck’s Theory of Moral Emotions 3. Westermarck’s Mature Account of Morality 4. Sympathy in Westermarck’s Sociology (I): Evolutionary Roots and Expansion 5. Sympathy in Westermarck’s Sociology (II): The Genesis and Maintenance of Moral Norms 6. The Anatomy of Moral Responsibility 7. The Origin and Development of Moral Sentimentalism: Westermarck on Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Hume 8. The Smithian Roots of Westermarck’s Theory of Morality Concluding Remarks\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371701215575,"sku":"9780367660444","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/morality-made-visible-9780367660444","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}