Author: Edward Payson EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology
Author: Edward Payson EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Moral Animal
Author: Robert WrightPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772748
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review). "Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book Review Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animaled one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics—as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies. Illustrations.
Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology
Author: E. P. EvansPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330391549
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Excerpt from Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology Recent enlargement of mental science. Close connection between evolutional ethics and animal psychology. Modern survivals of mediæval metaphysics and anthropocentric ethics. "Zoophily." Personification of inanimate objects by primitive peoples. Example from the Kalewala. Observation of animals by hunters and herdsmen in early society. Superstitious fear of animals and the rise of zoolatry. Survivals of animal worship in the colts of civilized races. Human appreciation of the lower animals as the result of their domestication. Their position as members of the tribe or family. Their worth recognised by primitive legislation. The dog in the Avesta. Zarathustra's care for cattle. Buddha's precepts in respect to animal life. The doctrine of evolution taught by Greek philosophers. The Ionic school of naturalists. Aristotle and Theophrastus. Greek speculation from Thales to Proclus. Celsus and Origen. Advanced views of Nemesius. His superiority to St. Augustine. Thomas Aquinas and the scholiasts. Beasts as types and symbols of spiritual truths. Their equality with man before the law. The principle of animals' rights asserted by evolutionists and generally opposed by theologians. Lotze's theory of soul and body. Psychical faculties as affected by the physical organism. Their coetaneous development and peculiar interdependence in the pithecoid stage of man's evolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics
Author: Johan De SmedtPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303068802X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how human morality evolved, some philosophers have called for the study of morality to be naturalized, i.e., to explain it in terms of natural causes by looking at its historical and biological origins. The present literature has focused on the link between evolution and moral realism: if our moral beliefs enhance fitness, does this mean they track moral truths? In spite of the growing empirical evidence, these discussions tend to remain high-level: the mere fact that morality has evolved is often deemed enough to decide questions in normative and meta-ethics. This volume starts from the assumption that the details about the evolution of morality do make a difference, and asks how. It presents original essays by authors from various disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, developmental psychology, and primatology, who write in conversation with neuroscience, sociology, and cognitive psychology.
The Case for Animal Experimentation
Author: Michael Allen FoxPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055018
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Discusses animal rights and the morality of animal experiments, suggests ethical guidelines for the use of animals as test subjects, and identifies irrational attitudes towards animals
Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology
Author: Edward Payson EvansPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357521806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics
Author: Tom L. BeauchampPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195371968
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 997
Book Description
This text is designed to capture the nature of the questions as they stand today and to propose solutions to many of the major problems in the ethics of how we use animals.
An Outline of Evolutionary Ethics
Author: Chapman CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics, Evolutionary
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Evolution of Morality
Author: Richard JoycePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262263254
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence supports an innate basis to human morality. As a moral philosopher, Joyce is interested in whether any implications follow from this hypothesis. Might the fact that the human brain has been biologically prepared by natural selection to engage in moral judgment serve in some sense to vindicate this way of thinking—staving off the threat of moral skepticism, or even undergirding some version of moral realism? Or if morality has an adaptive explanation in genetic terms—if it is, as Joyce writes, "just something that helped our ancestors make more babies"—might such an explanation actually undermine morality's central role in our lives? He carefully examines both the evolutionary "vindication of morality" and the evolutionary "debunking of morality," considering the skeptical view more seriously than have others who have treated the subject. Interdisciplinary and combining the latest results from the empirical sciences with philosophical discussion, The Evolution of Morality is one of the few books in this area written from the perspective of moral philosophy. Concise and without technical jargon, the arguments are rigorous but accessible to readers from different academic backgrounds. Joyce discusses complex issues in plain language while advocating subtle and sometimes radical views. The Evolution of Morality lays the philosophical foundations for further research into the biological understanding of human morality.
The Moral Animal
Author: Robert WrightPublisher: Abacus (UK)
ISBN: 9780349107042
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
THE MORAL ANIMAL examines the significance of this extraordinary shift in our perception of morality and what it means to be human. Taking the life of Charles Darwin as his context, Robert Wright brilliantly demonstrates how Darwin's ideas have stood the test of time, drawing startling conclusions about the structure of some of our most basic preoccupations. Why do we commit adultery, express suicidal tendencies and have the capacity for self-deception? Wright not only provides the answers to such fundamental moral questions from the perspective of evolutionary psychology but challenges us to see ourselves anew through the clarifying lens of this fledgling and exciting science.