Biology and the moral paradoxes
dc.contributor.author | Alexander, Richard D. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T17:48:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T17:48:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1982-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Alexander, Richard D. (1982/10)."Biology and the moral paradoxes." Journal of Social and Biological Systems 5(4): 389-395. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/23857> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B7GX4-4DN97CT-15/2/ca9da28bc679a7bf0af0020efb694b87 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/23857 | |
dc.description.abstract | Considerations from biology suggest (1) that human interests can be generalized as reproductive, involving activities by individuals that tend to promote the survival of their individualized sets of genes; (2) that ethical, moral and legal questions arise out of conflicts of interest that exist because of our history of genetic differences; (3) that human behavior probably always involves egoistic tendencies and moral inconsistency; (4) that the stages of moral development described by social scientists correspond to the patterns of life effort discussed by biologists; (5) that the idealized moral systems of philosophy and religion have been developed as models that are promoted in others but not (or more than) in one's self; and (6) that what are usually seen as the closest approaches to these idealized models are the sources of our most severe problems because they involve between-group competition and strife. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Biology and the moral paradoxes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Sciences (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Zoology, Insect Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/23857/1/0000096.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-1750(82)92066-8 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Social and Biological Systems | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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