Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies
Social Structure and Moral Development
By (author) C.R. Hallpike
Publication date:
09 December 2016Length of book:
258 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498536325
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.