Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature

by Larry Arnhart

Book Overview

This book shows how Darwinian biology supports an Aristotelian view of ethics as rooted in human nature. Defending a conception of "Darwinian natural right" based on the claim that the good is the desirable, the author argues that there are at least twenty natural desires that are universal to all human societies because they are based in human biology. The satisfaction of these natural desires constitutes a universal standard for judging social practice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791436934
• ISBN13: 9780791436936
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.