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The reality and validity of the moral sense — which ordinary people take for granted — took a battering in the last century. Materialist trends in philosophy, decline in religious faith, and a loosening of traditional moral constraints contributed to a shift in public attitudes, with many decent honest folk both aware of a questioning of moral claims and uneasy with a world that has no place for the moral dimension. Haslam shows how important the moral sense is to the human personality and exposes the weakness in much current thinking that suggests otherwise. His goal is to help the reader to a mature and confident understanding of the moral mind, which constitutes an essential part of what it is to be human.
Source: Library Journal

Credit: David Gordon

"Marking a true advance in the discussion of evolutionary explanations of morality, this book is highly recommended for all collections."

Credit: Mary Midgley

"An extremely sensible little book. It does what I'm always trying to do myself — says things that are really rather obvious, but which have somehow got forgotten and become invisible."

Source: Metapsychology

Credit: Albert D. Spalding

"A stimulating introduction to the questions about conscience and morality that continue to hover over a the investigation of the moral sense by philosophers and scientists."

Source: Network Review

"Although the author is a Christian, the book seeks out the common ground that can be widely shared by people of different beliefs."

Source: Fourth World Review

Credit: Edward P. Echlin

"I recommend this book."

Source: Theology

Credit: Paul D. Janz

"This is an engaging, nicely targeted, and for its purposes well informed little book... written in a very easily accessible style... welcome for readers having little or no specialized acquaintance with current moral exchanges... well recommended."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 18 October 2005
- ISBN-13: 9781845400163
- Extent: Main content page count : 96
- Code: 184540016X
- Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 x 0.8 cm
- Weight: 200 grams
- List Price: £8.95
- ONIX Version 2.1, Version 3

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Title: Moral Mind
Subtitle: A Study of What it is to be Human
Author: Henry Haslam
Collection: Societas
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Imprint: Societas

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