Evolutionary-ethics Definition

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(ethics) Ethics--the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct--that is informed yet not uniquely determined by sociobiology--the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals.

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Evolutionary-ethics Sentence Examples

  • That attempt has not, in the opinion of the majority of critics, been successful, and perhaps what is most permanent in the contribution of modern times to ethical theory will ultimately be attributed to philosophers antagonistic to evolutionary ethics.

  • It was in Herbert Spencer, the triumphant " buccinator novi temporis," that the advocates of evolutionary ethics found.

  • For he saw clearly that to be successful evolutionary ethics must involve the " transvaluation of all values," the " demoralization " of all ordinary current morality.

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