Tag: Ferdinand Brunetière
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Oliver Mayo, Evolution by Natural Selection and Ethics: What in evolution has ethical implications?
by David L. Duffy Mayo’s book is a meditation on/updating of Ferdinand Brunetière’s (1894) The morality of evolutionary theory. [1][2] Like Christian de Duve’s Genetics of original sin and the future of life, Brunetière reckons Original Sin is explained by natural selection. [3] Mayo, however, prefers the Humean line on is-ought. This is an “outsider”…