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Culture and development matter to understanding souls, no matter what our evolutionary design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Michel Ferrari
Michel Ferrari*
Affiliation:
Human Development and Applied Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ONM5S 1V6, Canada
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Abstract:

For Bering, appreciating that people are objects is a developmental accomplishment. Baldwin and Piaget agree. However, for Piaget, an immanent conception of the divine is more developed than a separate transcendent God. Culture also matters. In Plato's Phaedo, Socrates' belief in immortality was a reasoned conclusion – not “built in” – for reasons similar to those still held by modern scientists.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 472
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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