Ethics Evolve
Ethics Evolve
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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English
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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It is argued that patterns of behaviour that distinguish human ‘moral communities’ have evolved culturally and been subject to natural selection. For this to work, these behaviour patterns must be maintained stably over substantial numbers of people and periods of time. Religious prescription – which is essentially equivalent to ethics – has provid...
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Ethics Evolve
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1468566276
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1468566276
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1062-7987
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1474-0575
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10.1017/S1062798713000161