Department of Psychology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
Adv Child Dev Behav. 2013;45:125-53. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-397946-9.00006-3.
Morality and cooperation are central to human life. Psychological explanations for moral development and cooperative behavior will have biological and evolutionary dimensions, but they can differ radically in their approach to biology. In particular, many recent proposals have pursued the view that aspects of morality are innate. We briefly review and critique two of these claims. In contrast to these nativist assumptions about the role of biology in morality, we present an alternative approach based on a relational developmental systems view of moral development. The role for biology in this approach is in setting up the conditions--the developmental system--in which forms of interaction and later forms of thinking emerge.
道德和合作是人类生活的核心。对道德发展和合作行为的心理学解释将具有生物学和进化维度，但它们在生物学方法上可能存在根本差异。特别是，许多最近的提议都追求道德的某些方面是先天的观点。我们简要回顾和批评了这两种观点中的两种。与这些关于生物学在道德中的作用的天生假设相反，我们提出了一种基于道德发展的关系发展系统观点的替代方法。生物学在这种方法中的作用是为互动形式和后来的思维形式出现创造条件——即发展系统。
