Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human NatureSUNY Press, 1 янв. 1998 г. - Всего страниц: 332 This book shows how Darwinian biology supports an Aristotelian view of ethics as rooted in human nature. Defending a conception of "Darwinian natural right" based on the claim that the good is the desirable, the author argues that there are at least twenty natural desires that are universal to all human societies because they are based in human biology. The satisfaction of these natural desires constitutes a universal standard for judging social practice as either fulfilling or frustrating human nature, although prudence is required in judging what is best for particular circumstances. The author studies the familial bonding of parents and children and the conjugal bonding of men and women as illustrating social behavior that conforms to Darwinian natural right. He also studies slavery and psychopathy as illustrating social behavior that contradicts Darwinian natural right. He argues as well that the natural moral sense does not require religious belief, although such belief can sometimes reinforce the dictates of nature. |
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ARISTOTLE DARWIN AND NATURAL RIGHT | 1 |
Ten Propositions | 6 |
Seven ObJections | 7 |
An Overview of the Book | 13 |
DESIRE AND REASON | 17 |
The Nature of Desire | 18 |
The Normative Structure of Animal Movement | 21 |
Twenty Natural Desires | 29 |
Natural Genitals and Natural Feet | 149 |
Feminist Culturalism | 158 |
MASTER AND SLAVE | 161 |
Ant Slavery and Human Slavery | 162 |
Aristotle | 170 |
Hume | 178 |
Jefferson | 182 |
Darwin | 189 |
Nurturing Nature | 36 |
Four Source of Moral Disagreement | 44 |
Prudence | 46 |
POLITICAL ANIMALS | 51 |
Ants Bees and Other Political Animals | 52 |
The Hobbesian Critique | 58 |
The nature of Culture | 64 |
THE HUMAN NATURE OF MORALITY AND FREEDOM | 69 |
Natural Freedom | 83 |
Conclusion | 87 |
PARENT AND CHILD | 89 |
Religious Communication in the Oneida Community | 92 |
Secular Communism in the Kibbutz | 95 |
Four Biological Causes | 101 |
The Human Ecology of Parental Investment | 116 |
Infanticide Adoption and Sexual Bonding | 119 |
MAN AND WOMAN | 123 |
Feminist Naturalism | 124 |
The Biology of the Sex Differences | 129 |
Mating Desires | 132 |
Male Dominance and Male Vulnerability | 137 |
The Moral Complementarity | 143 |
Lincoln | 193 |
Racial Science | 201 |
Conclusion | 208 |
THE POVERTY OF PSYCHOPATHIC DESIRE | 211 |
The Mask of Sanity | 212 |
The Flat Soul Behind the Mask | 216 |
An Evolutionary Niche for Machiavellians | 219 |
To know But Not to Feel | 223 |
Moral Strangers | 227 |
THE ENDS AND KINDS OF LIFE | 231 |
Natural Kinds | 232 |
Natural Ends | 238 |
NATURE AND NATURES GOD | 249 |
McShea Masters and Wilson | 250 |
Aristotle and Augustine | 251 |
Hume and Darwin | 255 |
Moses and Darwin | 258 |
The desire to Understand | 267 |
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