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by Frans de Waal


  Binti Jua

  biologists, preference for bottom-up accounts

  Boehm, C.

  Bogart, Humphrey

  Bonnie, K. E.

  bonobos: as closest relative to humans; perspective-taking by. See also apes

  bottom-up accounts

  Butler, Joseph

  capuchin monkeys: expectations and fairness in; food sharing among; seeing-knowing tests, passing of. See also primates

  Cavalieri, Paola

  Cheney, D. L.

  children, development of morality in

  chimpanzees: altruism of, limits on the; anthropomorphic language appropriate for; as closest relative to humans; consolation among; emotional life of; empathy, examples of; food sharing among; forgiveness and reconciliation among; intercommunity violence among; medical research and; naughty behavior of; parental care, loss of infants in; reciprocity among; revenge system of; selfconsciousness of; social rules followed by; targeted helping by; theory of mind in; welfare of other group members, concern regarding. See also primates

  Chimp Haven

  Church, R. M.

  cognitive empathy

  cognitive parsimony

  community concern

  Confucius

  consolation

  Cooper, Anthony Ashley

  Damasio, A.

  Darwin, Charles: on human morality; Huxley and; Kropotkin and; moral being, definition of; morality as the best distinction between man and animals; normative self-government, significance of the capacity for; sentimentalist moral theory and

  Dawkins, Richard

  Desmond, Adrian

  de Waal, Frans: altruism in the argument and research of; on animal rights; anthropodenial; anthropomorphic language, use of; behavioral observations vs. normative ideals, explanatory problem of; chimpanzees, study of; consolation behavior, documentation of; human morality, question regarding; intentionality in animal behavior; naturalistic theory of; personal distress, example of; perspective-taking in apes; primate empathy/ altruism/targeted helping, examples of; research of; Russian doll model; sense of social regularity; veneer and naturalistic theory, distinction between; Veneer Theory, critique of; Veneer Theory, limitations of critique of; Wright, classification of

  Dewey, John

  Diamond, Jared

  distress, personal

  divine grace

  dolphins

  elephants

  emotional contagion

  emotional responses/behaviors: anthropomorphic language and; communication among nonhuman primates and; empathy (see empathy); expectations and fairness, study of; human morality and, origins of (see also morality); moral, definition of; in moral judgments, rationality vs.; nonhuman (see also nonhuman animals); reasoning and decision-making, relation to; reciprocity (see reciprocity); retributive; Western tendencies in characterizing

  empathy: among social animals; as building block of morality; cognitive; consolation behavior; distress, responses to by apes and monkeys; emotional contagion and; emotional response, as a form of; ethics of animal testing and; neural basis of; origin of; reiterated; the Russian doll model of; sympathy and (see also sympathy); Veneer Theory’s self-interest, as contradicting

  evolution: continuity in; continuity of humans and animals in; cultural, and developing the capacity for psychological altruism; empathy and continuity in; human goodness, reconciling a presumed conflict with (see Veneer Theory of human morality); human morality as product of (see also naturalistic theory of human morality); Huxley as defender of Darwin’s theory of; natural selection (see natural selection); origin of human morality and, adequacy of de Waal’s account regarding (see also origins of morality; psychological altruism); sociality in human

  evolutionary biologists: the Beethoven error; selfishness in natural selection, overemphasis of; Veneer Theory, acceptance of (see also Veneer Theory of human morality)

  evolutionary parsimony

  evolutionary psychology

  expectations

  fairness

  Foot, Phillipa

  forgiveness

  Fouts, Deborah

  Fouts, Roger

  Frankfurt, Harry

  Freud, Sigmund

  Gallup, G. G.

  Gauthier, D.

  Georgia (the chimpanzee)

  Ghiselin, M.

  Gibbard, Allan

  Goodall, Jane

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  gratitude

  Gray, J.

  Great Ape Project

  Greene, J. D.

  Greenspan, S. I.

  guesser-versus-knower paradigm

  Haidt, Jonathan

  Hamilton, W. D.

  Harlow, H.F.

  Hebb, D.O.

  Hediger, H.

  Hobbes, Thomas

  human goodness. See morality

  human morality. See morality humans/human nature: altruism of (see altruism); asocial, assumption of; autonomous/rational vs. social/emotional conceptions regarding; autonomy/ self-government, capacity for; closest relative of, bonobo or chimpanzee as; continuity with other animals, question of (see also intentionality; levels of morality; psychological altruism); men, advantages of connectedness through marriage for; morality of(see morality; naturalistic theory of human morality; Veneer Theory of human morality); moral reasoning by; obligations to nonhuman animals (see also animal rights); passions in; self-consciousness of; selfishness and self-interest of (see selfishness/self-interest); social character of; social pressure enforcing moral norms; women, understanding of primacy of connectedness by

  Hume, David: animals, high regard for; cross-species explanatory uniformity advocated by; moral sentiments, discussion of; reason as the slave of the passions; sentimentalist moral theory of

  Humphrey, N.

  Hutcheson, Francis

  Huxley, Thomas Henry: critique of de Waal’s critique of; gardener metaphor to characterize human morality; morality and evolution, attempt to drive a wedge between; origin of Veneer Theory in the dualism of

  indirect reciprocity

  inequity aversion

  intentionality: in altruistic behavior; capacity for the highest level of and the emergence of morality; capacity for the highest level of as unique to humans; levels of and moral action; the question of; sentimentalist theories (and de Waal) regarding. See also psychological altruism

  intersubjectivity. See also Theory of Mind

  intuitions. See emotional responses/ behaviors

  Joyce, R.

  Kagan, J.

  Kant, Immanuel

  Kaou Tsze

  Kennedy, J. S.

  kin selection. See natural selection

  Kitcher, Philip: fairness among apes, questioning of; inequity aversion; intentional altruism among nonhuman mammals, limited evidence of; motives behind behavior, importance of knowing; Solid-to-the-Core Theory; on Veneer Theory

  Korsgaard, Christine M.

  Kravinsky, Zell

  Kropotkin, Petr

  Ladygina-Kohts, N. N.

  language: discontinuity between humans and animals regarding; empathy and; evolution of and the origins of morality; learning agenda of, morality as parallel to; self-consciousness and

  learned adjustment

  levels of morality: the evolutionary learning agenda; judgment and reasoning; moral sentiments or “building blocks,”; social pressure

  Lipps, T.

  loyalty

  Luit

  macaques: consolation among; mother’s need to learn offspring’s perspective; redirected aggression by; social policing among. See also primates

  Masserman, J.

  Mayr, E.

  medical research: apes, argument for special status of; conflicted feelings regarding; noninvasive; selection of species for invasive. See also animal rights

  memory

  Mencius

  Menzel, E.W.

  Miles, Lyn White

  mind, theory of. See Theory of Mind

  mirror self-recognition (MSR)r />
  morality: altruism and (see also altruism); biases in moral judgments; emotions as fundamental for (see also emotional responses/behaviors); the expanding circle of; functions of; as group-oriented phenomenon; human obligations to nonhuman animals; intentionality and (see intentionality); levels of (see levels of morality); loyalty and; Mencius on; moral emotions, defining; normative vs. descriptive accounts of; origins of(see origins of morality); question of why we are so attached to; rationality vs. emotions/intuitions in; reason and; sentimentalist and “the Hume-Smith lure” (see also psychological altruism); shared premises in discussing; social conventions and, distinction between; universalizability of

  moral relativists

  Mozi

  MSR. See mirror self-recognition

  Nagel, Thomas

  National Institutes of Health

  naturalistic theory of human morality: community concern as an element of; emotions vs. rationality in moral judgments; empathy and reciprocity as building blocks of morality (see also empathy; reciprocity); evolutionary biologists’ departure from, the Beethoven error and; origin of morality, as one school in the debate regarding; Veneer theory, comparison to; Westermarck on the origins of morality

  naturalistic veneer theory of human morality

  natural selection: the Beethoven error regarding; as building block of naturalistic theory of human morality; emotional and strategic motivations for behavior, difficulties of sorting out; group vs. individual and kin; human goodness, as source of; Huxley’s rejection of to explain morality (see also Veneer Theory of human morality). See also evolution

  neuroscience: naturalistic theory of human morality and; shared representations between self and others, study of

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Nishida, Toshisada

  nonhuman animals: anthropomorphism in explanations of the behavior of (see anthropomorphism); empathy by (see empathy); human morality as distinct from or continuous with, debate regarding (see also intentionality; levels of morality; psychological altruism); Hume’s high regard for; intentionality of (see intentionality); primates (see primates); reciprocity by (see reciprocity); rights of (see animal rights); self-interest, question of motivation by

  O’Connell, S. M.

  origins of morality: continuity or distinction between humans and non- human animals and the (see also intentionality; levels of morality; psychological altruism); cultural evolution and; Darwin on; evolution and, adequacy of de Waal’s account regarding; Freud and Nietzsche on; naturalistic theory of(see naturalistic theory of human morality); naturalistic veneer theory of; Smith and Darwin on; veneer and naturalistic theories compared; veneer theory of (see Veneer Theory of human morality)

  PAM. See Perception-Action Mechanism

  Parfit, Derek

  parsimony: cognitive vs. evolutionary; principle of anthropomorphic

  Patterson, Francine

  Perception-Action Mechanism (PAM)

  personal distress

  perspective-taking

  Plato

  Premack, D.

  Preston, S. D.

  primates: altruism of (see also altruism); anthropomorphism in explanations of the behavior of (see anthropomorphism); capuchin monkeys (see capuchin monkeys); chimpanzees (see chimpanzees); coalitions and alliances among; communication as emotionally mediated in; community concern among; conflict resolution among; consolation by apes and monkeys; distress, responses to by apes and monkeys; empathy in (see empathy); intergroup migration among; macaques (see macaques); parental care, evolution of empathy and; reciprocity and fairness among; rhesus monkeys (see rhesus monkeys); targeted helping by apes and monkeys. See also apes

  principle of anthropomorphic parsimony

  protection against aggression

  Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph

  psychological altruism: evolutionary account of morality and; evolutionary overcoming of wantonness as key to human; limitation on chimpanzee; of nonhuman animals, human moral practices and; notion of; types of

  rational agent/choice theory

  rationality/reason: human as partly illusory; morality and; in moral judgments, emotions/intuitions vs.,; self-consciousness and; Veneer Theory and (see also selfishness/self-interest); Western celebration of

  Rawls, John

  reciprocal altruism. See altruism; reciprocity

  reciprocity: among chimpanzees; as building block of morality; as building block of naturalistic theory of human morality; definition of; fairness and; the Golden Rule and human morality, at the heart of; indirect

  reconciliation

  religion

  retributive emotions

  rhesus monkeys: emotional contagion among infant; sympathy in. See also primates

  Ruse, Michael

  Russian dolls

  scientific anthropomorphism: distinguished from sentimental anthropomorphism. See also anthropomorphism

  selection, evolutionary process of. See natural selection

  self-consciousness

  self-deception

  selfishness/self-interest: altruism vs., intentionality in distinguishing; nonhuman animals and; presence of, overestimating the; usage of the term(s); Veneer Theory and

  Seyfarth, R. M.

  Shaftesbury, Earl of. See Cooper, Anthony Ashley

  Shanker, S. G.

  Sidgwick, Henry

  Singer, Peter: affluence increases obligation; all pain is equally relevant; conclusions of, similarity to de Waal’s; de Waal’s circle of morality and the extension of morality to animals; impartial/ disinterested perspective, significance of; trolley problems; Veneer Theory, limited defense of

  Smith, Adam: empathic capacity, description of; impartial spectator of; self- government, moral significance of the capacity for; on sympathy

  Sober, Elliott

  social contract theory

  sociality, human. See humans/human nature

  social pressure

  Solid-to-the-Core Theory (STCT)

  somatic marker hypothesis

  spectatorism

  speech. See language

  STCT. See Solid-to-the-Core Theory

  sympathetic resentment

  sympathy: in chimpanzees; Darwin on; definition of; empathy as leading to; as a natural, involuntary emotion; in nonhuman animals, ignoring of; in sentimentalist moral theory; Smith on. See also empathy

  targeted helping

  Theory of Mind (ToM)

  Thomas, Marshall

  ToM. See Theory of Mind

  Trivers, Robert L.

  trolley problems

  van Roosmalen, A.

  Veneer Theory of human morality (VT):critique of de Waal’s critique of; critiques of; critiques of de Waal’s critique of; dualism of; empathy and reciprocity, the debate about and; ideal type of; naturalistic theory, comparison to; naturalistic variation on (see naturalistic Veneer Theory of human morality); origin and development of; origin of morality, as one school in the debate regarding; variations on accepted by commentators; Wright’s placement in

  VT. See Veneer Theory of human morality

  wantons

  warfare

  Wechkin, S.

  Westermarck, Edward: disinterested fairness; moral feelings and emotions as natural; moral feelings and non-moral emotions, distinction between; on the origin of morality; retributive emotions, emphasis on; retributive kindly emotion, classification of gratitude as; sympathy as a natural emotion

  Williams, George C.

  Williams, J. H. G.

  Wilson, David Sloan

  Wlson, Edward

  Wilson, E. O.

  Wise, Steven M.

  Woodruff, G.

  Wright, Robert

  Yerkes, R. M.

  Yeroen

  Zahn-Waxler, C.

 

 

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