Just Babies

In 'Just Babies', Paul Bloom challenges the traditional view that humans are born as blank moral slates.

He argues that humans are innately equipped with a sense of morality, citing groundbreaking research at Yale that demonstrates babies as young as a few months old can judge the goodness and badness of others' actions, feel empathy and compassion, and exhibit a rudimentary sense of justice.

Bloom explores how this innate morality is limited by natural hostility to strangers, parochialism, and bigotry, and how reason, imagination, and compassion enable us to transcend these primitive moral instincts.

The book delves into various aspects of morality, including the morality of chimpanzees, psychopaths, religious extremists, and Ivy League professors, and discusses moral feelings about sex, politics, religion, and race.