Analyse & Kritik

Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory

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"Tim Lewens"

Titel: The Progress of Moral Evolution
Autor: Tim Lewens
Seite: 259-270

Buchanan and Powell’s book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the evolution of morality. I suggest that they exaggerate the degree to which their view of the evolution of moral progress is committed to a form of moral realism. I also suggest that Darwin’s own approach to the evolution of the moral sense shares more with their view than they may realise. Finally I point to some tensions in their invocation of the concept of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA).

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