Instincts Article Reviews Samples For Students

The Moral Instinct by Steven Pinker

Harvard Professor Steven Pinker, in his The New York article, “The Moral Instinct,” goes on to discuss his sixth or moral sense. His argument is that individuals’ moral sense can be explained using “game theory, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.” He presented his argument as a double-sided yet balanced view of the subject on morality. He talked about moral relativism and moral illusions, as well as, the embeddedness of morality in people.
Pinker claimed that there are various explanations to morality or moral sense. What people thought of as the most admirable trait in a person may actually be the reversed ...

Introduction

In the article, the writer makes the case that women have better instincts for the ecological sustenance of the earth. Her case is based on the fact that women are more fundamentally materially grouped in the ecology of the planet than men. She regards these instincts to human existence on the planet. She says that human-caused environmental problems of the planet are extensively due to an exploitive, paternalistic, male dominated culture (Warren & Erkal, 1997). Mary approaches the argument from a Marxist, materialistic view combining it with ecofeminism and non-anthropocentricity. She argues that, there is no necessary conflict between a Marxist approach ...

Article 1: Boyer, Pascal. Human instincts that fashion God. 2001. Retrieved from, http://www.nous.org.uk/Boyer.html.
Inference concerns a logical conclusion based on evidence. One arrives at inference after consideration of the face value of the evidence. This clearly indicates that inference is not the result of systematic analysis nor is it the result of testing of evidence. Therefore, in order to note an inference one should achieve a conclusion based on evidence obtained concerning the aspect under concern.
- Ad populum “Faith is not always necessary
- Ad Ignorantium “Human mind may have evolved to experience the world in domain-specific ...