The expanding circle : ethics, evolution, and moral progress
What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism? In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one's kin and community members but has developed into a consciously chosen ethic with an expanding circle of moral concern. Drawing on philo
eBook, English, 2011
1st Princeton University Press pbk ed View all formats and editions
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011
1 online resource (xvii, 208 pages) : illustrations
9781400838431, 9781283135696, 9786613135698, 1400838436, 1283135698, 6613135690
733058004
Cover; contents; preface to the 2011 edition; preface; 1: the origins of altruism; 2: the biological basis of ethics; 3: from evolution to ethics?; 4: reason; 5: reason and genes; 6: a new understanding of ethics; notes on sources; afterword to the 2011 edition; index
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