LEADER 02468nam 22004335 450 001 9910496138703321 005 20240304181400.0 010 $a0-585-17650-7 010 $a0-520-92097-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520920972 035 $a(CKB)111054828792252 035 $a(BIP)047571415 035 $a(BIP)007275633 035 $a(BIP)001580211 035 $a(DE-B1597)648747 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520920972 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111054828792252 100 $a20240130h19941994 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTemptations of Evolutionary Ethics /$fPaul Lawrence Farber; ed. by Paul Lawrence Farber 210 1$aBerkeley, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1994] 210 4$d1994 215 $a1 online resource (222 pages) 311 $a0-520-21369-6 311 $a0-520-08773-9 330 $aEvolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are built into human nature and can be discovered through knowledge of evolutionary theory.Farber describes three upsurges of enthusiasm for evolutionary ethics. The first came in the early years of mid-nineteenth century evolutionary theories; the second in the 1920s and '30s, in the years after the cultural catastrophe of World War I; and the third arrived with the recent grand claims of sociobiology to offer a sound biological basis for a theory of human culture.Unlike many who have written on evolutionary ethics, Farber considers the responses made by philosophers over the years. He maintains that their devastating criticisms have been forgotten-thus the history of evolutionary ethics is essentially one of oft-repeated philosophical mistakes.Historians, scientists, social scientists, and anyone concerned about the elusive basis of selflessness, altruism, and morality will welcome Farber's enlightening book. 610 $aEthics, evolutionary 610 $aPhilosophy 676 $a171/.7 700 $aFarber$b Paul Lawrence$f1944-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0467808 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496138703321 997 $aUNINA