For instance, some proponents of normative evolutionary ethics have argued that evolutionary theory undermines certain widely held views of humans'moral superiority over other animals.
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It was extensively adopted as a textbook on the subject and made him the best-known proponent of evolutionary ethics in late-nineteenth-century Britain.
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The modern revival of evolutionary ethics owes much to E . O . Wilson's 1975 book, " Sociobiology : The New Synthesis ".
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Normative ( or prescriptive ) evolutionary ethics, by contrast, seeks not to explain moral behavior, but to justify or debunk certain normative ethical theories or claims.
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"' Franz Manfred Wuketits "'( born Parndorf 1955 ) is an Austrian biologist, university teacher and evolution theory, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary epistemology and sociobiology.
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Not long after the publication of Darwin's " The Descent of Man ", evolutionary ethics took a very different-- and far more dubious-- turn in the form of Social Darwinism.
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We have evolutionary developmental biology, human evolution, genetics and the origin of species, inception of Darwin's theory, reaction to Darwin's theory, non-Darwinian evolution, and even evolutionary ethics.
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""'From Darwin to Hitler : evolutionary ethics, eugenics, and racism in Germany " "'is a 2004 book by Richard Weikart, a historian at California State University, Stanislaus, and a senior fellow for the Center for Science and Culture of the Discovery Institute.
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But all varieties of normative evolutionary ethics face the difficult challenge of explaining how evolutionary facts can have normative authority for rational agents . " Regardless of why one has a given trait, the question for a rational agent is always : is it right for me to exercise it, or should I instead renounce and resist it as far as I am able ?"
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Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism; satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).
