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050	0	0	_aBJ1311 _b.B5 1999
082	0	0	_a171/.7 _221
245	0	0	_aBiology and the foundation of ethics / _cedited by Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse.
246	3		_aBiology & the Foundations of Ethics
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1999.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge studies in philosophy and biology
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0	0	_tAristotle on the biological roots of virtue : the natural history of natural virtue / _rJames G. Lennox -- _tThe moral status of animals in eighteenth-century British philosophy / _rMichael Bradie -- _tFrom natural law to evolutionary ethics in enlightenment French natural history / _rPhillip R. Sloan -- _tFrench evolutionary ethics during the third republic : Jean de Lanessan / _rPaul Lawrence Farber -- _tThe state and nature of unity and freedom : German romantic biology and ethics / _rMyles W. Jackson -- _tDarwin's romantic biology : the foundation of his evolutionary ethics / _rRobert J. Richards -- _tNietzsche and Darwin / _rJean Gayon -- _tEvolutionary ethics in the twentieth century : Julian Sorell Huxley and George Gaylord Simpson / _rMichael Ruse -- _tThe laws of inheritance and the rules of morality : early geneticists on evolution and ethics / _rMarga Vicedo -- _tScientific responsibility and political context : the case of genetics under the swastika / _rDiane B. Paul and Raphael Falk -- _tThe case against evolutionary ethics today / _rPeter G. Woolcock -- _tBiology and value theory / _rRobert J. McShea and Daniel W. McShea.
520			_aThere has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology, in particular evolutionary biology, and foundational questions in ethics. The book asks such questions as whether humans are innately selfish, and whether there are particular facets of human nature that bear directly on social practices. The volume is organised historically beginning with Aristotle and covering such major figures as Hume and Darwin down to the present and the work of Harvard sociobiologist, E. O. Wilson. This is the first book to offer this historical perspective on the relation of biology and ethics, and has been written by some of the leading figures in the history and philosophy of science, whose work stands very much at the cutting edge of these disciplines.
650		0	_aBioethics.
650		0	_aEthics, Evolutionary.
700	1		_aMaienschein, Jane, _eeditor.
700	1		_aRuse, Michael, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521551007
830		0	_aCambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511609077
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