Evolutionary ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a division of philosophy, which addresses issues revolving around morality; what is considered right or wrong, good or evil. Ethics of revolution can be categorized into metaphysics, normative ethics, or descriptive ethics. Such approaches may sometimes be found in fields of science such as psychology of evolution, sociobiology, or ethnology with a center on perceptive and clarifying observed principles alternatives and their origins (Levy, 2010).
Ethics is a part of a system deeds that accord with standards of behavior that can either be right or wrong .There are several of the term ethics for instance, moral standards that tells about our behavior, moral responsibility that refers to our conscience, moral identity referring to the capability of right and wrong action. It can also mean the ability to differentiate between right and wrong or good and evil. Ethics is a very common phenomenon in the world today because it cuts across several aspects and areas in life like personality, conscience, behavior, fate and the society in general (Levy, 2010).
Traditionally it was considered as the field which makes a phenomenon to be right or wrong. It is not just describing but also prescribing values, goals, and obligations. In addition, example is eugenics, which is a field of psychology of evolution, which categorizes the bad or the good basing on the genetics in place. Ethics of evolution often follow some set of standards including “deeds which have the capacity to withstand long term impacts and survival and are substantially good enough to be able to hide the bad acts in an individual.” Even though research has intensified in this field, it has not been fully researched on to consider whether it is normative or not. Consequentialism, which refers to ethical hypothesis that embrace the cost of a particular action from the origin of any relevant moral judgments about that action is mainly dealt with in ethics of evolution. Deontological approach on the other hand, examines how good or right and action is. It is based on the values that exist in a society and virtue ethics, which relies on the intentions of a person so as to determine whether they are wrong or right. This is due to Darwinism’s excesses and because of the insensitive consideration of the values required in the society. Metaethics looks for possible foundations of ethics of whether there any ethical realities out there from which we can deduce our moral theories (Levy, 2010).
Ethics of evolution tries to lessen the gap, which exists in natural sciences and philosophy, through explanation of concepts of morality and ethical behaviors in the society. If this had been proved to be right, ethics could be considered as an experience that came up immediately during the evolution of skilled, intelligent human beings and not from the way, philosophers argue, as the result of divine revelation or the application of our rationale thinking (James, 2010).
Evolutionary ethics remains to be successful in providing interesting answers to met ethics. Ethics of evolution, on a philosopher’s way of thinking, is a very new advance to ethics. Though inter disciplinary approaches between scientists and philosophers have the ability to provide new ideas, evolutionary ethics still has a long way to go. The objectives of evolutionary psychology overlap with the moral science. Evolutionary ethics tries to explain well why one should be good as it gives reasons to why people normally behaving in a certain manner. In addition, it provides guidelines to certain moral behavior of an individual (Giovanni, 2006).
In general, the ideal importance of ethics brings fort the right perception in the science and technological world since they are able to take into account the relevant aspects that involve ethics and clearly involve them in their work. This in turn results to effective service delivery and the lessening of the infrequent misjudgments that usually occur within the science and technology fields. Every ethical theory tries to stick to the ethical values that result in success when attempting to arrive at the best conclusion. When an individual understands every ethical theory, including the strong points and weak points, a person may make an informed conclusion when attempting to attain an ethically right conclusion to a dilemma.
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References
Giovanni, G. D. (2006). Evolutionary ethics and contemporary biology. Cambridge, CA:
Cambridge University Press.
James, S. (2010). An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
Levy, N. (2010). Evolutionary Ethics. London: Ashgate Publishing Company.
