Concept
Evolutionary ethics
Overview
field of inquiry that explores how evolutionary theory might bear on our understanding of ethics or morality.
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The Real Criterion of Evolutionary Ethics. Mr. Spencer expressly recognizes that there exists (1) an ideal code of conduct, formulating the conduct of the completely adapted man in the completely evolved society.
John Dewey, Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics
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Already we have concluded in a general way that conduct at large, including the conduct Ethics deals with, is to be fully understood only as an aspect of evolving life; and now we are brought to this conclusion in a more special way. § 23. Here, then, we have to enter on the consideration of moral phenomena as phenomena of evolution; being forced to do this by finding that they form a part of the aggregate of…
Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics
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Its meaning, its character, its force, is known when, and only when, it is considered as an arrangement for meeting the conditions involved in some specific situation. This analysis is carried out by tracing successive stages of development--by endeavoring to locate the particular situation in which each structure has its origin, and by tracing the successive modifications through which, in response to changing…
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
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Philosophers who discussed Evolutionary ethics
Related ideas
- E. O. Wilson
- G. E. Moore
- Michael Ruse
- Truth value
- John Dewey
- Conscience
- Hypocrisy
- Metaethics
- Retributive justice
- Social relation
- Normative ethics
- Psychology
- Herbert Spencer
- Individual
- Sociobiology
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Is–ought problem
- Group selection
- Morality
- Reciprocal altruism
- Nash equilibrium
- Social Darwinism
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- William Graham Sumner
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Conscience
- George Christopher Williams
- Hypocrisy
- Kin selection
- Michael Ruse
- Nash equilibrium
- Reciprocal altruism
- Retributive justice
- Social relation
- Sociobiology
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- Robert Trivers
- Richard Joyce (philosopher)
- Center for Open Science
- PsyArXiv
- Richard D. Alexander
- Sexual conflict
- Sharon Street
- Conflict of interest