Moral Psychology Historical and Contemporary Readings [Paperback]

• Provides a comprehensive introduction to moral psychology, which is the study of psychological mechanisms and processes underlying ethics and morality
• Unique in bringing together contemporary texts by philosophers, psychologists and other cognitive scientists with foundational works from both philosophy and psychology
• Approaches moral psychology from an empirically informed perspective
• Explores a wide range of topics from passion and altruism to virtue and responsibility
• Editorial introductions to each section explain the background of and connections between the selections

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction 1
Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias, and Shaun Nichols

Part I: Reason & Passion 5

Introduction 7
Shaun Nichols

1 Selections from A Discourse of Natural Religion 11
Samuel Clarke

2 Selections from An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtueṣ 21
Francis Hutcheson

3 Selections from An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense 24
Francis Hutcheson

4 Selections from Enquiries Concerning the Principles of Morals 32
David Hume

5 Introductiolã3