The evolutionary origin of moral agency and its implications for Ethics
Moral agency, understood as the faculty that enables morality, appears due to the psychobiological structures that set its conditions of possibility. We try to understand its evolutionary origin attending the possibility that moral agency emerged as an evolutionary by-product, with no specific funct...
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Universidad Pontificia Comillas
2017-02-01
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| description | Moral agency, understood as the faculty that enables morality, appears due to the psychobiological structures that set its conditions of possibility. We try to understand its evolutionary origin attending the possibility that moral agency emerged as an evolutionary by-product, with no specific function, it would be a result derived from the concurrence of other elements that emerged and developed itself adaptively. After that we will make some considerations regarding the scope of empirical science and ethics in relation to morality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1cf7eb9e67974aea9381902b5aab146d2022-12-22T02:48:51ZspaUniversidad Pontificia ComillasPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica0031-47492386-58222017-02-017227384986410.14422/pen.v72.i273.y2016.0057355The evolutionary origin of moral agency and its implications for EthicsAndrés Richart0Universidad de ValenciaMoral agency, understood as the faculty that enables morality, appears due to the psychobiological structures that set its conditions of possibility. We try to understand its evolutionary origin attending the possibility that moral agency emerged as an evolutionary by-product, with no specific function, it would be a result derived from the concurrence of other elements that emerged and developed itself adaptively. After that we will make some considerations regarding the scope of empirical science and ethics in relation to morality.https://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/pensamiento/article/view/7688adaptaciónagencia moralenjutaevoluciónexaptaciónsubproducto. |
| spellingShingle | Andrés Richart The evolutionary origin of moral agency and its implications for Ethics Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica adaptación agencia moral enjuta evolución exaptación subproducto. |
| title | The evolutionary origin of moral agency and its implications for Ethics |
| title_full | The evolutionary origin of moral agency and its implications for Ethics |
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| title_short | The evolutionary origin of moral agency and its implications for Ethics |
| title_sort | evolutionary origin of moral agency and its implications for ethics |
| topic | adaptación agencia moral enjuta evolución exaptación subproducto. |
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