The Biology of Moral Systems

by Richard D. Alexander and Richard Alexander

Book Overview

Despite wide acceptance that the attributes of living creatures have appeared through a cumulative evolutionary process guided chiefly by natural selection, many human activities have seemed analytically inaccessible through such an approach. Prominent evolutionary biologists, for example, have described morality as contrary to the direction of biological evolution, and moral philosophers rarely regard evolution as relevant to their discussions.The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202011747
• ISBN13: 9780202011745
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"