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; [...]
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The Feeling of Evolution
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 26, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/06/26/the-feeling-of-evolution/
John Dewey’s Evolutionary Ethics
I am continually amazed to find that John Dewey had such a profoundly awakened evolutionary philosophy. In his work to construct an evolutionary ethical sensibility, Dewey recognized that the efforts to create an ethics based on an evolutionary worldview up until his own time had proven unsatisfactory at best and in the worst cases led [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on April 16, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/04/16/john-deweys-evolutionary-ethics/
