Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism

How is moral thinking, ethics, related to evolutionary theorizing? There are two approaches, epitomized by Charles Darwin who works under the metaphor of the world as a machine, and by Herbert Spencer who works under the metaphor of the world as an organism. Although the author prefers the first app...

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Autor principal: Ruse, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8781703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35061130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-022-00482-2
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spelling pubmed-87817032022-01-24 Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism Ruse, Michael Hist Philos Life Sci Original Paper How is moral thinking, ethics, related to evolutionary theorizing? There are two approaches, epitomized by Charles Darwin who works under the metaphor of the world as a machine, and by Herbert Spencer who works under the metaphor of the world as an organism. Although the author prefers the first approach, the aim of this paper is to give a disinterested account of both approaches. Springer International Publishing 2022-01-21 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8781703/ /pubmed/35061130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-022-00482-2 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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title Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism
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title_full_unstemmed Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism
title_short Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8781703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35061130
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