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A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution
Cora May Williams
Darwin, Wallace, Haeckel, Spencer: Williams puts the whole evolutionary school of ethics on the examining table. Part survey, part critique, her review asks whether natural selection can really generate duty, and where the theory strains. A rigorous tour of the thinkers who tried to derive morality from biology. Heavy lifting for readers who like their philosophy with footnotes and a fight.
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96 chapters
- 1A REVIEW OF THE SYSTEMS OF ETHICS FOUNDED ON THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
- 2C. M. WILLIAMS
- 3PREFACE
- 4CONTENTS
- 5A REVIEW OF EVOLUTIONAL ETHICS
- 6Part I
- 7INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
- 8CHARLES DARWIN
- 9FOOTNOTES:
- 10ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
- 11FOOTNOTES:
- 12ERNST HAECKEL
- 13FOOTNOTES:
- 14HERBERT SPENCER
- 15General Considerations
- 16The Physical View
- 17The Biological View
- 18The Psychological View
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