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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ruse, Michael

Titel

Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism

Ist Teil von

• History and philosophy of the life sciences, 2022-03, Vol.44 (1), p.1-1, Article 1

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

SpringerLink (Online service)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• How is moral thinking, ethics, related to evolutionary theorizing? There are two approaches, epitomized by Charles Darwin who works under the metaphor of the world as a machine, and by Herbert Spencer who works under the metaphor of the world as an organism. Although the author prefers the first approach, the aim of this paper is to give a disinterested account of both approaches.