Natural Citizens: Ethical Formation as Biological Development
Richard Paul Hamilton, "Natural Citizens: Ethical Formation as Biological Development"
English | ISBN: 1793633517 | 2023 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 0,7 + 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1793633517 | 2023 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 0,7 + 5 MB
Natural Citizens: Ethical Formation as Biological Development presents a novel view, "naturalist humanism," that applies recent scientific work challenging dichotomous views of biological development. Rather than being a passive victim of its evolutionary fate, the developing organism is an active participant, partly constructing its own ecological niche from internal and external resources. The human developmental environment, our ecological niche, has a distinctive socio-cultural character. Richard Paul Hamilton proposes that we understand the development of moral character as an integral part of biological development with the virtues construed as refinements of mundane social intelligence.
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