Descriptive evolutionary ethics consists of biological approaches to ethics (morality) based on the role of evolution in shaping human psychology and behavior. Such approaches may be based in scientific fields such as evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, or ethology with a focus on understanding and explaining observed ethical preferences or choices and their origins.
On the other hand, normative evolutionary ethics may represent a more independent attempt to use evolution, alone or partially, to justify an ethical system. This project has not, according to one view, been especially successful; for example, Richard Dawkins describes how we must rise above our selfish genes to behave morally (that is, evolution has endowed us with various instincts, but we need some other moral system to decide which ones to empower or control). Dawkins has since expressed interest in what Sam Harris calls a science of morality, which starts with the assumption that "morality" refers to "facts about the flourishing of conscious creatures".
The shoes of a child in Gaza. By Michael Brenner ...Silence reigns. I ... II ... military ... Those ethical admonitions are not merely abstract philosophical formulations. They express the evolutionary based instinct to safeguard the endangered – especially the young.
"From an evolutionary psychology point of view, men have a stronger reaction to their freedom being threatened and therefore they do the opposite." ... The study has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics.
It turns out that there may be some genetic and evolutionary factors afoot when it comes to bisexuality — but naturally, there are ethical concerns about such bold statements ... The conclusion drawn here is that bisexuality has evolutionary benefits.
A decade after he wrote “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Singer published The Expanding Circle (1981), in which he examines the evolutionary origins and logic of ethics ... Causes that once seemed ethically urgent have been supplanted by new fixations.
Developing a modern data strategy ... Overcoming barriers to data quality ... Concurrently, the edification of stalwart guardrails, firmly anchored in a bedrock of values and ethics, becomes an indispensable facet of this evolutionary trajectory.
To those unfamiliar with the academic field of ethics, this might seem counterintuitive ... Ethics professor at New York public university praises ‘evolutionary advantages’ of pedophilia.
Yet, despite a common theme of dismissing the ethical teachings of many organised religions worldwide, one of the points of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of repentance, is to help us learn to behave better regardless of who is watching.
Yet, despite a common theme of dismissing the ethical teachings of many organized religions worldwide, one of the points of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of repentance, is to help us learn to behave better regardless of who is watching.
Diminishing the value of each and every individual prairie dog’s life in a fabricated human-created and self-serving circle of life is ethically indefensible ... and ethically indefensible.
The controversy landed in Science magazine , where scientists debated the ethics of blinding monkeys ... My qualm with the Livingstone Lab’s experiment, the one that entailed sewing baby monkeys’ eyelids shut, is not primarily ethical but scientific.
This is not up for debate, nor is it an ethical matter ... He is wrong in thinking it will happen by a normal course of evolutionary processes, and that it is not an ethical matter!.
“The strongest reasons for protecting a level playing field in women’s sports are ethical reasons,” said sports attorney WilliamBock, JD, who served as General Counsel of the US Anti-Doping Agency...Colin Wright, ethics Prof.
The Emporia Gazette... In his influential 1949 book, “A Sand County Almanac,” Leopold called for an ethical relationship between people and the land they own and manage, which he called “an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity.” ... .
If we can adopt an evolutionary ethic that says the generations that follow ours are paramount, we rely on that fundamental drive to propagate the genes of our species into the future, while becoming ...
The Hawk Eye
26 Jul 2023
The Hawk Eye
26 Jul 2023