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Volume 21 Issue 1, Pages 95 - 112

Published Online: 15 Dec 2005

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EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS: A PHOENIX ARISEN
Michael Ruse 1
  1 Michael Ruse, professor of history and philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1

Presented this paper at the Thirty-first Annual Conference ("Recent Discoveries in Neurobiology-Do They Matter for Religion, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities?") of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, Star Island, New Hampshire, 28 July–4 August 1984.

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Abstract. Evolutionary ethics has a (deservedly) bad reputation. But we must not remain prisoners of our past. Recent advances in Darwinian evolutionary biology pave the way for a linking of science and morality, at once more modest yet more profound than earlier excursions in this direction. There is no need to repudiate the insights of the great philosophers of the past, particularly David Hume. So humans' simian origins really matter. The question is not whether evolution is to be linked to ethics, but how.


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10.1111/j.1467-9744.1986.tb00736.x About DOI

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