Le droit, l'éthique et la politique. Chemins de travers à partir de l'éthique théologique

(Résumé de l'ouvrage) Comment se posent aujourd'hui les rapports de l'éthique et du droit? L'un et l'autre ont longtemps pu vivre chacun dans leur monde propre: d'un côté la science juridique, le champ des actes observables, la justice extérieure du tribunal (droit), de l'autre la philosophie, le champ des mouvements de la volonté et le tribunal intérieur de la conscience (éthique). Mais dans le flou et la complexité des questions contemporaines, les frontières se déplacent. L'objectif de cet ouvrage est d'observer la manière dont ces déplacements opèrent en analysant plusieurs segments de la vie sociale: la politique, le domaine du vivant, le divorce et le travail dans l'économie internationale. En outre, quatre interventions montrent comment la tradition biblique et le protestantisme ont pensé le rapport de l'éthique et du droit.

No experimental evidence that sibling competition induces young to switch nests in the colonial Alpine swift, Apus melba

Adoption is frequent in colonial animals where opportunities for dependent young to receive care from nonbiological parents are high. The departure of dependent young from their original family to seek adoption in neighbouring families is thought to be induced by sibling competition for access to limited resources provided by poor-quality parents. We tested this hypothesis in the colonial Alpine swift by manipulating the number of young reared per brood, with the prediction that offspring from enlarged broods switch nests more frequently than those from reduced broods. Although nestling swifts hatch with little locomotor activity, from 20 days until their first flight at 50-70 days they frequently move out of their nests to seek adoption in neighbouring families. Although nestlings reared in experimentally enlarged broods were lighter and their body mass at day 20 after hatching was more variable than in nestlings reared in reduced broods, there was no difference between the two treatments in the frequency of nests switching and in the age when nestlings switched nests for the first time. However, consistent with other evidence that nest switching by nestling swifts evolved as a strategy to reduce ectoparasite load, young from broods with naturally high numbers of the ectoparasitic louse fly Crataerina melbae were more prone to switch nests. This shows that ectoparasitism rather than sibling competition is a key proximate factor promoting the evolution of nest switching in the colonial Alpine swift. (c) 2006 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.