The Ethics of Evolution

Melvin A. Kivinen
Circuitus
Published in
6 min readSep 29, 2023

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Evolutionary development has exhibited some obvious contribution to the development of moral beliefs held, yet this does not simply mean that evolutionary evidence can identify moral truths or justify normative claims, and this undermines one’s capacity to ‘debunk’ moral beliefs from evolutionary evidence.

Charles Darwin

Descriptive and Normative Explanations

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