Good Natured

Good Natured

Infobox_Book
name = Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
author = Frans de Waal
publisher = Harvard University Press
release_date = 1996
media_type = Print (hardcover and paperback)
pages = 296
isbn = ISBN 0-674-35660-8

"Good Natured" is a book by primatologist Frans de Waal on animal behavior and the evolution of ethics. The book was published in 1996 by Harvard University Press under the full title "Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals". Much of the book details observations of primate behavior, especially that of chimpanzees and bonobos. [de Waal 1996, p. 3: "After due attention in this book's first chapter to theories of evolutionary ethics, I will move on to more practical matters. Do animals show behavior that parallels the benevolence as well as the rules and regulations of human moral conduct? … As an ethologist specialized in primatology, I naturally turn most often to the order of animals to which we ourselves belong. … Our ancestors more than likely possessed many of the behavioral tendencies currently found in macaques, baboons, gorillas, chimpanzees, and so on."] On the final page, he concludes:

Chapters

#Darwinian Dilemmas
#*Survival of the Unfittest
#*Biologicizing Morality
#*Calvinist Sociobiology
#*A Broader View
#*The Invisible Grasping Organ
#*Ethology and Ethics
#Sympathy
#*Warm Blood in Cold Waters
#*Special Treatment of the Handicapped
#*Responses to Injury and Death
#*Having Broad Nails
#*The Social Mirror
#*Lying and Aping Apes
#*Simian Sympathy
#*A World without Compassion
#Rank and Order
#*A Sense of Social Regularity
#*The Monkey's Behind
#*Guilt and Shame
#*Unruly Youngsters
#*The Blushing Primate
#*Two Genders, Two Moralities?
#*Umbilical versus Confrontational Bonds
#*Primus inter Pares
#Quid pro Quo
#*The Less-than-Golden Rule
#*Mobile Meals
#*At the Circle's Center
#*A Concept of Giving
#*Testing for Reciprocity
#*From Revenge to Justice
#Getting Along
#*The Social Cage
#*The Relational Model
#*Peacemaking
#*Rope Walking
#*Baboon Testimony
#*Draining the Behavioral Sink
#*Community Concern
#Conclusion
#*What Does It Take to Be Moral?
#*Floating Pyramids
#*A Hole in the Head

Notes

References

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External links

* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/DEWGOO.html "Good Natured"] at the Harvard University Press
* [http://clogic.eserver.org/2002/madison.html Review by Elena Madison]
* [http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/McGrew_on_de_Waal_96.html Review by William C. McGrew]


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