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ISBN: 9780521719407 9780521895248 9781139167499 0521719402 0521895243 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,
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General ethics --- Ethics, Evolutionary. --- Medical ethics. --- Naturalism. --- Bioethics. --- Ethical Theory. --- Ethics, Evolutionary --- Medical ethics --- Naturalism --- Materialism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Science --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Ethics, Naturalistic --- Evolutionary ethics --- Naturalistic ethics --- Ethics --- Ethical relativism --- Moral and ethical aspects
ISBN: 0691141290 0691124477 9786612267659 1282267655 1400830338 9780691124476 0691169160 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,
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Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, renowned primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes and reinforcing our habit of labeling ethical behavior as humane and the less civilized as animalistic. Seeking the origin of human morality not in evolution but in human culture, science insists that we are moral by choice, not by nature. Citing remarkable evidence based on his extensive research of primate behavior, de Waal attacks "Veneer Theory," which posits morality as a thin overlay on an otherwise nasty nature. He explains how we evolved from a long line of animals that care for the weak and build cooperation with reciprocal transactions. Drawing on Darwin, recent scientific advances, and his extensive research of primate behavior, de Waal demonstrates a strong continuity between human and animal behavior. He probes issues such as anthropomorphism and human responsibilities toward animals. His compelling account of how human morality evolved out of mammalian society will fascinate anyone who has ever wondered about the origins and reach of human goodness. Based on the Tanner Lectures de Waal delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2004, Primates and Philosophers includes responses by the philosophers Peter Singer, Christine M. Korsgaard, and Philip Kitcher and the science writer Robert Wright. They press de Waal to clarify the differences between humans and other animals, yielding a lively debate that will fascinate all those who wonder about the origins and reach of human goodness.
Altruistic behavior in animals. --- Morale évolutive --- Altruisme chez les animaux --- Morale évolutive --- Altruistic behavior in animals --- Ethics, Evolutionary --- Primates --- Helping behavior in animals --- Altruism --- Animal behavior --- Ethics, Naturalistic --- Evolutionary ethics --- Naturalistic ethics --- Ethics --- Ethical relativism --- Behavior --- General ethics --- Ethics, Evolutionary. --- Behavior. --- Moeurs et comportement
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ISBN: 1107201462 1281903906 9786611903909 1139167499 0511437994 0511436548 0511438664 0511435746 0511437323 0521895243 0521719402 9780521895248 9780521719407 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Naturalized bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practised. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. Wary of idealisations that bypass social realities, the naturalism in ethics that is developed in this volume is empirically nourished and acutely aware that ethical theory is the practice of particular people in particular times, places, cultures, and professional environments. These essays situate the bioethicist within the clinical or research context, take seriously the web of relationships in which all human beings are nested, and explore a number of the different kinds of power relations that inform health care encounters. Naturalized Bioethics aims to help bioethicists, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, disability studies scholars, medical researchers, and other health professionals address the ethical issues surrounding health care.
Medical ethics. --- Naturalism. --- Ethics, Evolutionary. --- Ethics, Naturalistic --- Evolutionary ethics --- Naturalistic ethics --- Ethics --- Ethical relativism --- Materialism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Science --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Arts and Humanities
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