Evolutionary Ethics

Nitecki, Matthew H.

ISBN 10: 0791415007 / ISBN 13: 9780791415009

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolutionary Ethics
• Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791415007
• ISBN 13: 9780791415009
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None

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Synopsis

This volume analyzes the biological and philosophical disagreements in evolutionary ethics and points out difficulties with the interpretations.

The book is divided into four sections. The first is an historical introduction to the origin of evolutionary ethics, showing how different evolutionary ethics was a hundred years ago, and how distant Huxley is from most of us now. The second section argues for a sociobiological interpretation of evolutionary ethics. The third section presents the view opposite to that of the second section and rejects the sociobiological interpretation. The fourth section deals objectively with many complex and fundamental issues from diverse perspectives.

About the Author

Matthew H. Nitecki is Curator and Doris V. Nitecki is Associate in the Department of Geology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. They are the editors of History and Evolution, also published by SUNY Press.