Download or read book Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies written by C.R. Hallpike and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development combines insights of developmental psychology and cultural anthropology to examine the development of moral thinking. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of small-scale communities of hunter-gatherers and farmers in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, C.R. Hallpike studies the means by which individual thinking interacts with complex social factors to produce moral ideas and the effects of worldview on ethical systems. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.