Contents

Acknowledgments

        1.  Searching for Ethics: How Do People Become Good (and Bad)?

        2.  Moral Lessons of the Holocaust About Good and Evil, Perpetrators and Rescuers

        3.  The Overwhelming Power of the Group and the Situation

        4.  What Happened to Ethics: The Augustinian Legacy of Free Will

        5.  Another Modernity: The Moral Naturalism of Maimonides and Spinoza

        6.  Surveying the Field: How the New Brain Sciences Are Exploring How and Why We Are (and Are Not) Ethical

        7.  Beginning Again: The Blessing and Curse of Neuroplasticity: Interpretation (Almost) All the Way Down

        8.  The Self in Itself: What We Can Learn from the New Brain Sciences About Our Sense of Self, Self-Protection, and Self-Furthering

        9.  The Self Beyond Itself: The “We That Is I” and the “I That Is We”

      10.  What Is Ethics? How Does Moral Agency Work?

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