A continuous view of the universe seems to inherently evoke an ethical compulsion. When the boundaries between self and other, individual and society, inner and outer begin to dissolve into a single universe of continuous unbroken reality it becomes difficult to avoid the moral implications of our choices. If the inner and the outer are [...]
All posts for the month June, 2009
Evolutionary Ethics and Karma
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 29, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/06/29/evolutionary-ethics-and-karma/
The Feeling of Evolution
Evolutionary Ethics has been a topic of discussion ever since there has been discussion about evolution. In the early 20th century Eugenics was seriously studied at universities. Eugenics is the practice of controlled human breeding for evolutionary purposes. It was believed that if you took the most successful, intelligent and affluent people and coupled them; [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 26, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/06/26/the-feeling-of-evolution/
In Times of Crisis Philosophy is Not a Luxury: Part 2
We have become very familiar, perhaps over-familiar, with the word crisis. Everyday we hear about the environmental crisis, the economic crisis, the crisis of global warming, and the crisis of violent extremism and on and on. In seems that the efforts on the parts of many concerned individuals have successfully awakened the public to the [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 19, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/06/19/in-times-of-crisis-philosophy-is-not-a-luxury-part-2/
More thoughts on the freedom of so called “Freewill”
“Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own will . I add to this only that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 15, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/06/15/more-thoughts-on-the-freedom-of-so-called-freewill/
The Evolution of Freedom in the Universe
I am inspired by all of your thoughtful and provocative comments to my last post and captivated by this idea that what we experience as freewill is not actually a quality of a human being, but a characteristic of the universe itself as embodied in a human being. As we explore what we know about [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 10, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/06/10/the-evolution-of-freedom-in-the-universe/
So what is so FREE about freewill anyway?
Now that we have discussed more about continuity and spontaneity as fundamental aspect of the universe, and opened up the discussion about what Conscious Evolution actually is, it is time to update my thoughts about freewill. In an earlier post I boldly asserted that if there was such a thing as Conscious Evolution there had [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 4, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/06/04/so-what-is-so-free-about-freewill-anyway/
