Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium Challenges and Choices for Humankind /

The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality. It also traces pathways for knowledge-based choices to be made about directions for future long-...

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Main Author: Cliquet, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Evolutionary biology.
Anthropology.
Sociology.
ISBN:9783319730905
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Setting the Stage for Reflecting on a Universal Morality
  • 2. Origin and Evolution of Morality
  • 3. Adaptive and Maladaptive Features of Religious Beliefs as Sources of Morality
  • 4. Challenges of Major Secular Ideologies
  • 5. Evolution-Based Universal Morality
  • 6.- Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges related to Individual Variability
  • 7. Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges to Group Variability
  • 8. Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges related to Intergenerational Replacement
  • 9. Conclusions and Final Reflections
  • 10. Bibliography.

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