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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818748803321

Autore

Buchanan Allen E. <1948->

Titolo

The evolution of moral progress [[electronic resource] ] : a biocultural theory / / Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2018

ISBN

0-19-086843-0

0-19-086844-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

170.9

Soggetti

Ethics, Evolutionary

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress-explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile moral progress can be.