The Manufacturer’s Directions
Paul Bloom, a psychology professor at Yale, had a fascinating piece in the NYT magazine earlier this month about babies. In “The Moral Life of Babies,” he argues that babies have “at least a rudimentary moral sense.” At eight and ten months old, babies already root for the good guys and frown at — or smack– the bad guys.
Be sure to read the whole thing.
George Marlin discusses Bloom’s piece in terms of natural law– what Notre Dame’s Charles Rice calls the manufacturer’s directions and others have called the inscription on every human heart– here. Wesley Smith looks at human exceptionalism here.
