Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Evolution and ethics, and other essays

Label
Evolution and ethics, and other essays
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Evolution and ethics
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
His Collected essays, v. 9The Eversley series
Sub title
and other essays
Summary
Although dubbed "Darwin's bulldog," Thomas Huxley did not think the doctrine of evolution could give us a sense of ethics. He felt an evolutionary account of our origins must take morality quite seriously, and we must build it into our theories about human behavior. Even today, the attempt to build a naturalistic ethics grounded in evolutionary theory remains problematic, and Huxley's writings are as relevant as when he first penned them
Target audience
adult
Content