Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights

• Main Author: Friesen, Bruce K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion.; Globalization.; Markets.; Human rights.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Human Rights.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Religious Studies, general.

This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems.  It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere six thousand of the two hundred...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Model System
• Chapter 3. Moral Systems in Traditional Societies
• Chapter 4. Biological Underpinnings
• Chapter 5. Secularizing Morality
• Chapter 6. Convergence and Frontiers.