The evolution of moral progress : a biocultural theory / Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell.
2018
BJ1311
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Title
The evolution of moral progress : a biocultural theory / Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell.
ISBN
9780190868444 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
BJ1311
Dewey Decimal Classification
170.9
Summary
Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress-explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile moral progress can be.
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Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress-explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile moral progress can be.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 11, 2018).
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Powell, Russell, author.
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