“Just Babies” Review

“Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil” is written by Paul Bloom. This book is about Paul Bloom trying to explain whether babies are good or evil just from being born or if there is some kind of exterior influence that changes things. This is a very in-depth book with every chapter dedicated to different aspects of good and evil; for example empathy and compassion, family matters, and the moral life of babies. If you like reading about different experiments then this is the book for you but I found this rather dry and very hard to continue reading. This book is very similar to a university psychology textbook. There is very little to none narrative because it is based on Bloom and his colleague’s experiments and how they were performed and what resulted from them.

Despite my lack of full enthusiasm by trying to read this book, it was still very interesting. The results of the experiments were very intriguing because of the depth and importance these people wanted to find in all of it.

This is a quote for the back of the cover describing the influence of Paul Bloom.

          “Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life,                  moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam                  Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis                C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing,Just                              Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.”

The influences of Paul Bloom are quite broad and intriguing because of all the perspectives that he took during his time writing and researching for this book.

Overall I would recommend this book to those people who find research and very little narrative in book very heart-warming but for those who are looking for a heartwarming story about babies and how they are being influenced.

"I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review."