PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Precedent, Fundamental Justice, Nomothetic
2 Oct 2013
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Our capacity to live and work together, cooperate, leads us to be the dominant creatures on the earth. We have developed emotions such as empathy, caring, and other ways of interacting that allow us to be able to cooperate, we form communities (social connections which are important to us) But not everybody plays nicely, we also have the capacity to take advantage of other people, and to dominate, hurt, dehumanize others (turn into enemies) If we are going to work together effectively we have to maximize prosocial cooperation and inimize antisocial competition. If we don"t have rules around this, it becomes chaos and war. There is benefit to being in large groups, society has become larger over time, these large groups create a context for competition, so we had to develop rules (family rules, community rules, national rules) There always has to be some kind of guidelines.
