Please check out the episode below if you get a chance. Darcia Narvaez is both a TOK Society member and one of the great psychologists of our day. She also gave a wonderful presentation to the TOK Society Community meeting last year.

 

Thanks to Darcia, for all you do.

Best,
Gregg

 

 

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHhAVwd_VRg

 

Episode 32: UTOKing with Darcia Narvaez                                                        October 18, 2021

Title: Morality Starts in the Womb                                                                     

In Episode 32, Gregg welcomes Dr. Darcia Narvaez. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, and has recently been identified as one of the top 2% of scientists worldwide. She is author of many excellent books and articles, including one of Gregg's all-time favorites, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom. In this episode, she describes her conception of the "Evolved Nest," which maps the key social, physiological, and ecological features that foster healthy human socio-emotional and moral development. They explore how this Nest aligns with the UTOK Tree of Life, and the implications for society and human development. 

 

Here is the episode on podbean. 

Here is Darcia's Homepage; The Evolved Nest: Darcia's Moral Landscape PT Blog;

Here is a short film about her work, BreakingTheCycleFilm.org (also in Spanish; at YouTube with subtitles in 15 languages).

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

📘 Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom by Darcia

NARVAEZ: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378036-neurobiology-and-the-development-of[1]human-morality

📘 In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101880.In_a_Different_Voice

📘 Ethical Sensitivity: Nurturing Character in the Classroom EthEx Series Book 1 by Darcia Narvaez &

Leilani Gjellstad Endicott: https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?

PRODUCTID=1112&SINGLESTORE=true

📘 Ethical Judgment: Nurturing Character in the Classroom, EthEx Series Book 2 by Darcia Narvaez &

Tonia Bock: https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?

PRODUCTID=1113&SINGLESTORE=true

📘 Ethical Motivation: Nurturing Character in the Classroom EthEx Series Book 3 by Darcia Narvaez &

James Lies, C.S.C.: https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?

PRODUCTID=1114&SINGLESTORE=true

📘 Ethical Action: Nurturing Character in the Classroom EthEx Series Book 4 by Darcia Narvaez:

https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1115&SINGLESTORE=true

📃 Human Flourishing and Moral Development: Cognitive and Neurobiological Perspectives of Virtue

Development by Darcia Narvaez: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darcia[1]Narvaez/publication/313100734_Human_flourishing_and_moral_development_Cognitive_science_and_neu

robiological_perspectives_on_virtue_development/links/6075d3384585151ce182e427/Human-flourishing[1]and-moral-development-Cognitive-science-and-neurobiological-perspectives-on-virtue-development.pdf

📘 The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain

McGilchrist: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6968772-the-master-and-his-emissary

🎞️ Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity with Our Evolved Nest:

https://breakingthecyclefilm.org/

📘 Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny by Michael Tomasello:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39217056-becoming-human

📘 Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251387-mothers-and-others

📘 The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and

the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human

Condition

by Marshall Sahlins:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2430265.The_Western_Illusion_of_Human_Nature

🌐 The Journal of Ecopsychology (JoE): https://joe.nationalwellbeingservice.com/

📘 Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

by Richard Louv: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156599.Last_Child_in_the_Woods

📘 Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices introduce 28 Precepts for rebalancing Life on

Planet Earth by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690771/restoring-the-kinship-worldview-by-wahinkpe[1]topa-four-arrows/

📘 Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows: The True Story of an Indigenous-Based Social Transformer by R.

Michael Fisher: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37953948-fearless-engagement-of-four-arrows

🌐 Four Arrows ( Wahinkpe Topa) aka Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D, Ed.D: www.fourarrowsbooks.com

📘 Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing by Darcia Narváez,

Four Arrows, Eugene Halton, Brian Collier, Brian S Collier, Georges Enderle:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44675209-indigenous-sustainable-wisdom

📘 Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52879286-humankind

📘 The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by

Jeremy Lent: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55836847-the-web-of-meaning

 

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