Evolution and Ethics (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Although dubbed ?Darwin's bulldog,? Thomas Huxley did not think the doctrine of evolution could give us a sense of ethics. He felt an evolutionary account of our origins must take morality quite seriously, and we must build it into our theories about human behavior. Even today, the attempt to build a naturalistic ethics grounded in evolutionary theory remains problematic, and Huxley's writings are as relevant as when he first penned them.

Auteur

Thomas H. Huxley was born in 1825 in the English country village of Ealing. His father was a schoolteacher, but Huxley received little regular schooling and was largely self-taught. Often called an atheist or a materialist, Huxley later coined the term ?agnostic? to describe his own philosophical system of belief after finding that none of the various other ?isms? properly described his views.