Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies

Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development combines insights of developmental psychology and cultural anthropology to examine the development of moral thinking. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of small-scale communities of hunter-gatherers and farmers in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, C.R. Hallpike studies the means by which individual thinking interacts with complex social factors to produce moral ideas and the effects of worldview on ethical systems. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.

C.R. Hallpike is emeritus professor of anthropology at McMaster University.

Chapter IRelativism
Chapter IIThe Social Basis of Moral Ideas
Chapter IIIThe Psychology of Moral Development
Chapter IVSocial Evolution and Moral Judgment
Chapter VAtomistic Societies
Chapter VICorporate Order
Chapter VIITranscendence