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Natürlichkeit
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 42.00In everyday morality, ?naturalness? definitely continues to be a positively charged term. It plays a significant role wherever technical progress opens up natural processes to human control, for example in reproductive medicine, genetics and modern agriculture. This book enquires into the reasons and motives for the privileged position of the (relatively)... more...
Moral Origins
Basic Books 2012; US$ 28.99The natural and cultural history of the evolution of our sense of ethics, by a leading anthropologist of human morality. more...
Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 28.00How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. more...
The Evolution of Morality and Religion
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 47.00Biologist Donald Broom argues that morality and the central components of religion are of great value, and presents two central ideas: that morality has a biological foundation and has evolved as a consequence of natural selection, and secondly, that religions are essentially structures underpinning morality. more...
Evolution and Morality
NYU Press 2012; US$ 65.00Can theories of evolution explain the development of our capacity for moral judgment and the content of morality itself? If bad behavior punished by the criminal law is attributable to physical causes, rather than being intentional or voluntary as traditionally assumed, what are the implications for rethinking the criminal justice system? Is evolutionary... more...
Defending the Genetic Supermarket
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 63.95The controversial topic of the technology of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis, and the muddled approach to this subject adopted by the UK Parliament, is explored in detail in this volume. The author takes the viewpoint that the HFEA has taken insufficient notice to date of certain core ethical principles and makes the case for a much more ethically... more...
Biology and the Foundations of Ethics
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 33.00This collection of new essays focuses on the connection between biology and questions in ethics. more...
Einführung in die allgemeine Ethik
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung Die Ethik ist nicht nur ein zentrales Thema in der philosophischen Forschung, sondern steht auch im Mittelpunkt zahlreicher öffentlicher Diskussionen. In dieser mittlerweile in 4. Auflage vorliegenden Einführung in die Allgemeine Ethik erläutert der Autor anschaulich die zentralen Begriffe, diskutiert kritisch die wichtigsten Grundpositionen... more...
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 17.95"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a... more...
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