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Law and Evil - The Evolutionary Perspective (Hardcover)
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Law and Evil - The Evolutionary Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: Elgar Studies in Legal Theory
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Law and Evil presents an alternative evolutionary picture of man,
focusing on the origins and nature of human evil, and demonstrating
its useful application in legal-philosophical analyses. Using this
representation of human nature, Wojciech Zaluski analyses the
development of law, which he interprets as moving from evolutionary
ethics to genuine ethics, as well as arguing in favour of
metaethical realism and ius naturale. Zaluski argues that human
nature is undoubtedly ambivalent: human beings have been endowed by
natural selection with moral, immoral, and neutral tendencies (the
first ambivalence), and the moral tendencies themselves are
ambivalent (the second ambivalence), giving rise to an inferior
form of ethics called 'evolutionary ethics' Introducing a novel
distinction between two types of evil, primary and secondary, this
book explores the differences between evolutionary ethics and
genuine ethics in order to analyse the history of legal systems and
the controversy between natural law and legal positivism. Engaging
and thought-provoking, this insightful book will be vital reading
for both legal scholars and philosophers, especially those of law
and moral philosophy. Evolutionary biologists with an interest in a
philosophical interpretation of the results of evolutionary biology
will also find this book an important read.
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