Moral Brain, Moral Bible

Drawing from multiple scientific disciplines—including neuroscience, child development, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology—Joel Rutman summarizes what is known about the origin of moral behaviour. He explains how our ideas of right and wrong are based on evolved built-in brain predispositions that are then shaped by family and culture. The science of human behaviour helps to explain events and ideas in the Hebrew Bible. Moral behaviours associated with the Biblical Good Inclination a...