The Evolution of Morality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthijs van Veelen
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Of Morality

Self-Serving Sacrifice: The Evolution of Morality

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1034-1035
Author(s):  
Dennis L. Krebs
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Of Morality

The Evolution of Morality

PARADIGMI ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 173-196
Author(s):  
Stephan White
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Tragedy Of The Commons ◽  
Evolution Of Morality ◽  
Morality Plays ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Commons ◽  
One Step

It seems clear that cooperation when cheating would go undetected - for example, in many-person prisoner's dilemmas or "tragedy of the commons" cases - is a precondition of the functioning of modern social institutions. Such cooperation seems difficult to explain in evolutionary terms, however, since those who are disposed to cheat seem to enjoy a systematic advantage relative to those who are not. Further- more, the appeal to mechanisms for the detection and punishment of noncooperation, since those mechanisms themselves presuppose cooperation, merely pushes the problem one step back. In this paper I argue that morality plays an ineliminable role in the explanation of the forms of cooperation in question. Moreover, I provide a schema for the evolution of morality in the face of the advantages that those disposed to cheat apparently enjoy.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Morality

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Allchin
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Of Morality

The Evolution of Morality

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia Deane-Drummond ◽  
Agustín Fuentes ◽  
Neil Arner
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Of Morality

Bioethics

2013 ◽  
pp. 198-237
Author(s):  
Jorge E. Monzon
Keyword(s):  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Health Care Settings ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Evolution Of Morality ◽  
Simple Program ◽  
The World

Bioethics, or ethics of life, is the study of the human moral behavior in the fields of life sciences and healthcare. As a branch of applied ethics, bioethics integrates studies in the areas of biology, medicine, ecology, and social, human, and legal issues. In this chapter, the evolution of morality along history is briefly described. The different disciplines of ethics, with emphasis on the accepted principles of biomedical ethics in modern times, are presented. Additionally, the merging of moral dilemmas to current multidisciplinary teams of biologists and engineers performing in health care settings is analyzed. Moreover, the contents of a simple program of bioethics education are outlined, calling attention to the evaluation of the moral development of biomedical engineers. At the end of the chapter, a list of societies and organizations of bioethics around the world is intended to guide the interested reader further into the field of Bioethics.

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