Evolution and Ethics

Name: Evolution and Ethics
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108004558
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Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, May 18, 1893

Autor: Thomas Henry Huxley

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In 1893, the biologist and educator Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) published the text of a public lec...

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Autor

Thomas Henry Huxley

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2009

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EAN

9781108004558

ISBN

1108004555

Enbook ID

02054041

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

128

Dimensiuni

230 x 153 x 8

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In 1893, the biologist and educator Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) published the text of a public lecture on ethics and evolutionary theory. He opens Evolution and Ethics with the story of Jack and the Bean Stalk as a metaphor for cyclical evolution—the small seed that becomes a mature plant. Huxley then takes the reader on a journey through two culturally different belief systems Buddhism and Greek intellectual thought — to illustrate human attempts to understand the 'cosmic process'. Huxley outlines the growth of differing concepts of justice as populations became more organised, and how different societies dealt with the knowledge that nature is unjust. Huxley abhors the harsh applications of Darwin's work to society and decries the 'gladiatorial theory of existence'. Arguing against the concept of social Darwinism, Huxley proposes that ethical behaviour must counteract the painful effects of the 'struggle for survival' in order for society to progress.

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Evolution and Ethics

Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, May 18, 1893

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