| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-330) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : one long argument -- I. The origins of morality -- Transcendent morality : how evolution ennobles ethics -- Why we are moral : the evolutionary origins of morality -- Why we are immoral : war, violence, and the ignoble savage within -- Master of my fate : making moral choices in a determined universe -- II. A science of provisional ethics -- Can we be good without God? : science, religion, and morality -- How we are moral : absolute, relative, and provisional ethics -- How we are immoral : right and wrong and how to tell the difference -- Rise above : tolerance, freedom, and the prospects for humanity -- Appendix I. The devil under form of baboon : the evolution of evolutionary ethics -- Appendix II. Moral and religious universals as a subset of human universals. |
| Subject |
Ethics, Evolutionary.
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Evolutionary psychology.
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| ISBN |
0805075208 |
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9780805075205 |
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