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  2. Evolution of morality - Wikipedia

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    Some evolutionary biologists and game theorists argue that since gradual evolutionary models of morality require incremental evolution of altruism in populations where egoism and cruelty initially reigned, any sense of occasional altruism otherwise egoistic and cruel individuals being worse than consistent cruelty would have made evolution of ...

  3. Evolutionary ethics - Wikipedia

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    Evolutionary metaethics asks how evolutionary theory bears on theories of ethical discourse, the question of whether objective moral values exist, and the possibility of objective moral knowledge. For example, some evolutionary ethicists have appealed to evolutionary theory to defend various forms of moral anti-realism (the claim, roughly, that ...

  4. Moral development - Wikipedia

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    The Evolutionary Theory of Morality tries to explain morality and its development in terms of evolution and how it may at first seem contradictory for humans to have morals and morality in the evolutionary opinion. Evolution has many beliefs and parts to it but as most commonly seen, it is the survival of the fittest.

  5. Morality - Wikipedia

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    Some evolutionary biologists, particularly sociobiologists, believe that morality is a product of evolutionary forces acting at an individual level and also at the group level through group selection (although to what degree this actually occurs is a controversial topic in evolutionary theory). Some sociobiologists contend that the set of ...

  6. Moral foundations theory - Wikipedia

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    [63] [64] Alternative theories include the model of moral motives, [65] the theory of dyadic morality, [61] [62] relationship regulation theory, [66] the right-wing authoritarianism scale developed by Bob Altemeyer, [67] the theory of morality as cooperation, [68] [69] the theory of political ideology as motivated social cognition, [48] [49 ...

  7. Moral relativism - Wikipedia

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    Research within evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and evolutionary anthropology has claimed that morality is a natural phenomenon that was shaped by evolutionary mechanisms. [23] In this case, morality is defined as the set of relative social practices that promote the survival and successful reproduction of the species, or ...

  8. Natural morality - Wikipedia

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    Natural morality refers to morality that is based on human nature, rather than acquired from societal norms or religious teachings. Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution is central to many modern conceptions of natural morality, but the concept goes back at least to naturalism .

  9. Argument from morality - Wikipedia

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    According to the theory, the human experience of moral obligations was the result of evolutionary pressures, which attached a sense of morality to human psychology because it was useful for moral development; this entails that moral values do not exist independently of the human mind. Morality might be better understood as an evolutionary ...