Kantian ethics and the ethics of evolution, a critical study.

Mode of access: Internet.

The principles of ethics,

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The principles of ethics,

"References" : vol. I, p.563-572; vol. II, p. 483-487.

The moral life; a study in genetic ethics,

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Morals in evolution ; a study in comparative ethics /

"List of abbreviations" : p. xi-xvi.

Harmonism and conscious evolution,

Appendix: The future of the League of Nations.--Respublica litteratorum.--La Société des nations contre l'anarchie nationale et internationale.--America and the League of Nations.

Justice,

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The ethical import of Darwinism,

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On Suffering and Sympathy: Jude the Obscure, Evolution and Ethics

This article links Thomas Hardy’s exploration of sympathy in Jude the Obscure to contemporary scientific debates over moral evolution. Tracing the relationship between pessimism, progressivism, and determinism in Hardy’s understanding of sympathy, it also considers Hardy’s conception of the author as enlarger of “social sympathies”--a position, I argue, that was shaped by Leslie Stephen’s advocacy of novel writing as moral art. Considering Hardy’s engagement with writings by Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Herbert Spencer, and others, I explore the novel’s participation in a debate about the evolutionary significance of sympathy and its implications for Hardy’s understanding of moral agency. Hardy, I suggest, offered a stronger defence of morality based on biological determinism than Darwin, but this determinism was linked to an unexpected evolutionary optimism.

Intervening in evolution: Ethics and actions

Biologists should help to guide a process of cultural evolution in which society determines how much effort, if any, is ethically required to preserve options in biological evolution. Evolutionists, conservation biologists, and ecologists should be doing more research to determine actions that would best help to avoid foreclosing evolutionary options.