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Evolution of morality

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emergence of human moral behavior over the course of human evolution

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Such impulses will have served him at a very early period as a rude rule of right and wrong. But as man gradually advanced in intellectual power, and was enabled to trace the more remote consequences of his actions; as he acquired sufficient knowledge to reject baneful customs and superstitions; as he regarded more and more, not only the welfare, but the happiness of his fellow-men; as from habit, following on…
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
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The unity and increase of the self is not a test or canon, but a principle of moral experimentation.[144]
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
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The return, however, has taken place under the influence of democratic polity, commercial expansion, and scientific reorganization. It has been a liberation more than a reversion. This combined return and emancipation, having transformed our practice of life in the last four centuries, will not be content till it has written itself clear in our theory of that practice. Whether the consequent revolution in moral…
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
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