Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue. Human Nature and Human Morality: The Challenge of Grounding the Moral Sense 1
4. Part I
5. 1 Size, Power, and Death: Constituents in the Making of Human Morality 35
6. 2 Death and Immortality Ideologies in Western Philosophy 63
7. 3 Real Male-Male Competition 93
8. 4 On the Pan-Cultural Origins of Evil 127
9. Part II
10. 5 Empathy 193
11. 6 Child’s Play: A Multidisciplinary Perspective 241
12. 7 On the Nature of Trust 265
13. 8 The Rationality of Caring: Forging a Genuine Evolutionary Ethics 285
14. Epilogue. Re-Naturing the De-Natured Species: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 341
15. References 412
16. Index of Names 436
17. Index of Terms 442