Moral Acrobatics
How We Avoid Ethical Ambiguity by Thinking in Black and White
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 March 2021
- ISBN 9780190057657
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 236x155x20 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 92
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Short description:
Human beings are full of moral inconsistencies. We wear multiple moral hats on one head, and juggle double standards. But how do we manage being the moral acrobats that we are? Moral Acrobatics addresses this question by trying to shed honesty on who we are as moral agents and the limits of what we consider "moral". Philippe Rochat reveals our deep inclination to hold double standards and manage contradictory values, and our universal tendency to cluster our existence depending on context and situations, whether we deal with close kin, colleagues, strangers, lovers, or enemies. Ultimately, Moral Acrobatics explains our inclination to see the world in black and white.
MoreLong description:
Although it is difficult for us to fathom, pure monsters do not exist. Terrorists and other serial killers massacre innocent people, yet are perfectly capable of loving their own parents, neighbors, and children. Hitler, sending millions to their death, was contemptuous of meat eaters and a strong advocate of animal welfare. How do we reconcile such moral ambiguities? Do they capture something deep about how we build values? As a developmental scientist, Philippe Rochat explores this possibility, proposing that as members of a uniquely symbolic and self-conscious species aware of its own mortality, we develop uncanny abilities toward lying and self-deception. We are deeply categorical and compartmentalized in our views of the world. We imagine essence where there is none. We juggle double standards and manage contradictory values, clustering our existence depending on context and situations, whether we deal in relation to close kin, colleagues, strangers, lovers, or enemies. We live within multiple, interchangeable moral spheres. This social-contextual determination of the moral domain is the source of moral ambiguities and blatant contradictions we all need to own up to.
Rochat offers a slim but powerful volume, both fascinating and frightening
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION Moral battlefield and the illusion of moral unity
PART 1: FACTS What does it mean to be moral?
1 Human self-reflective curse
2 Double standards
3 Moral acrobats
4 Value creation and moral comfort zones
5 Hitler was a vegetarian!
6 No pure monsters
PART 2: PROCLIVITIES What guides our moral decisions?
7 Moral sphere collapses
8 A heart made of abundance
9 Spherical alliances
10 Exclusivity instinct
11 Love as exclusion
12 Belonging instinct
PART 3: MECHANISMS What shapes our moral decisions?
13 Blind spots and shortcuts
14 Fundamental attribution error
15 Clustering and stereotyping
16 Pervasive fetishism
17 Ingrained essentialism
18 Essentialism and prejudice
19 Group essentialism
20 Self-essentialism
PART 4: DEVELOPMENT What are the origins of our moral decisions?
21 Self-consciousness in development
22 Self-deception in development
23 Lying and deceiving in development
24 Natural roots of moral hypocrisy
25 What about culture and development?
CONCLUSION Human moral frailty
Postscript: Moral acrobatics and human violence
