Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium Challenges and
The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality. It also traces pathways for knowledge-based choices
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Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium Challenges and Choices for Humankind
Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium
Robert Cliquet Dragana Avramov •
Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium Challenges and Choices for Humankind
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Robert Cliquet Anthropology and Social Biology Ghent University Ghent Belgium
Dragana Avramov Population and Social Policy Consultants (PSPC) Brussels Belgium
and Population and Family Study Centre (CBGS), Flemish Scientific Institute Brussels Belgium
ISBN 978-3-319-73089-9 ISBN 978-3-319-73090-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73090-5
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Preface
This book aims to revitalise and substantiate the idea that evolution science can, in the context of further progressing modernisation, provide a rational and robust framework for elaborating the main guidelines of a universal morality for the future. It also traces pathways for long-term biological evolution and cultural development and adaptation of humanity, in the direction of ecological sustainability of our planetary environment. It argues that the traditional theistic belief systems are, in many respects, no longer well adapted to the needs of the novel environment of modernity and its exigencies for further human evolution and cultural development and adaptation, on the one hand; on the other hand, most secular ideologies only deal with humanity’s present and future in a rather frag
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