Hamlin's Argument Of Morality

Morality, as one of the most popular topics in children’s development has been creating various debates over the centuries. People often asks, are we born with the sense of morality or is it developed through the social relations and experiences? These two opposite sides bring up many arguments among the psychologists. Hamlin. J, by using three experiments showed us a clear analysis of arguing morality is innate. As a contrast Carpendale, Hammond and Atwood argue that morality is through the experience in life. Despite the fact, both of these journals represent a strong argument, yet they both lack of bringing this matter into a larger picture, not only focus on a particular age group but look at a whole life span for people. So, rather than …show more content…
For example, when the infant was born they start to understand the existence of the people around them and differentiate the relations in between. Infants tend to develop a closer relationship with people who they spend more time with. In an experiment, many infants show a clear preference towards the puppet that is helpful compared with the unhelpful puppet. () This experiment not only showed us babies do have a basic understanding of what is right or wrong but through the experience, baby learned how to interpret their own feelings with puppet together. This shows that Hamlin’s argument is a lack of seeing how did baby link their experience with their innate understanding and thus developed a deeper interpretation. When baby saw the helpful puppet it might remind them of someone who helped them before, thus the helpful puppet creates a better impact fro the …show more content…
Spelke and Kinzler in their paper denote their belief that “human nature is endowed with a small number of separable system of core knowledge, then the new, flexible skills and belief build on these core foundations”. () Spelke and Kinzler’s paper well established on my argument, morality can be counted towards on of the core knowledge we obtain since birth, and through the development and experiences, all these factors contribute then slowly established upon morality. Thus we see that core knowledge is not set in stone (), it also suggests that there is a possibility for us to learn how to be moral. We might learn from our parents, or through our