Woodrow Wilson's The Moral Sense

He further explored the issues he raised in On Character two years later in the book The Moral Sense (1993). In this book, Wilson seeks to bring together some traditional ideas with a number of important empirical research findings into the sources of human behavior over the last half of the 20th century. Drawing on evidence from diverse scientific disciplines, including animal behavior, anthropology, evolutionary theory, biology, endocrinology, brain science, genetics, education and psychology, he concludes that our basic sense of right and wrong actually has a biological and behavioral origin. He makes the argument that the "moral sense" arises from the infant's innate sociability, though it must also be nurtured by parental