By Marc D. Hauser. 489 pp., illustrated. New York, Ecco, 2006. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-06-078070-8.
Marc Hauser's groundbreaking book advances a new theory of moraljudgment, synthesizing a great deal of work in neuroscience,psychology, and ethology, as well as the author's own recentexperimental work. Hauser aims to demonstrate that moralityis innate in the way that language is innate: not in its precisecontent, but in its form. Just as, according to Noam Chomsky,each child comes into the world with a brain wired for languageacquisition, so is each of us born ready to acquire a moralsystem, Hauser argues. Just as the innate workings of the humanmind tightly constrain the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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