E. O. Wilson as Moralist
E. O. Wilson offers descriptive and normative analyses of morality. Regarding sciencee as the only proper basis for explaining and developing morality, he has not sufficiently accounted for the complexity of human conduct in this arena. Wilson's account of evolved proclivities, however, indicat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
2001
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Zygon
Year: 2001, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 233-238 |
| Further subjects: | B
material origins
B Morality B biological predispositions B Empiricism B Norms B gene-culture theory B Emotion |
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| Summary: | E. O. Wilson offers descriptive and normative analyses of morality. Regarding sciencee as the only proper basis for explaining and developing morality, he has not sufficiently accounted for the complexity of human conduct in this arena. Wilson's account of evolved proclivities, however, indicates important features of human nature that moral theorists ignore at their peril. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00354 |