Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Story of Good - Morgan Freeman
- Psychopaths have a different brain to regular people
- Lack impulse control and empathy
- Using brain scans, you may be able to
create a treatment for someone with a
psychopathic brain
- 'Weighing of the heart' in ancient
Egyptian culture
- Assumes that fear of consequences are the only thing
that keep us on the right path
- Are we naturally evil or naturally good?
- Original sin
- Natural instinct in
humans
- 'Inherent evil'
- Adam and Eve in the Garden
of Eden
- Zoroastrians
- You have two mentalities (spirits).
One is good and one is bad.
- The idea of the Devil in
Christianity developed from this
religion
- We must all make the choice for good. We
must purge evil from within us by doing
good/ the right thing.
- Experiment on a group of children, told they
are being watched by an 'invisible princess'
- Kids are less likely to cheat at the
game if they are told she is there
- Similarly, in religion, you are less likely to commit crimes/
bad acts if you think you are being watched by a deity