The Fruits of Contradiction: Evolution, Cooperation and Ethics in an Inter-Religious Context

While recent developments in evolutionary theory, particularly game-theoretical models of group selection, can appear to provide a potential evolutionary grounding for human altruism, significant ethical problems remain embedded in such portrayals of human interaction. Specifically, such models end...

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Main Author: Weiss, Daniel H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2013
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-195
Further subjects:B Killing
B Game Theory
B Ethics
B Dialogue
B Inter-religious
B Science
B Evolution
B Sacrifice
B Reductionism
B Contradiction
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