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Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics (Hardcover)
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In the late nineteenth century, culture critics who were readers of
Darwin's work on evolution pondered what the implications of
natural selection might be for human culture, religion and ethics.
American pragmatists, by and large, rejected a social Darwinian
spin on ethics, economics, and theology in favor of a less
determinate humanist version of the ethical implications that
emphasized contingency and meliorism. The early arguments between
T. H. Huxley and William Sumner over the issues mirrors the
contemporary arguments between Stephen Jay Gould and others against
"the New Atheists'" determinate interpretation of cultural
implications which largely echo the social Darwinists' position but
in the current language of sociobiology. The work of pragmatists
such as William James, George Santayana, Jane Addams, and John
Dewey detail an evolutionary perspective that rejects the moral
implications of social Darwinism.
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