作者: William Irons
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9744.1991.TB00803.X
关键词: Epistemology 、 Social cognitive theory of morality 、 Criticism 、 Sociology 、 Competition (economics) 、 Moral disengagement 、 Sociobiology 、 Limit (category theory) 、 Moral development 、 Morality 、 Religious studies 、 Cultural studies 、 Education
摘要: Abstract. This paper presents and criticizes. Alexander's evolutionary theory of morality (1987). Earlier research, on which is based, also reviewed. The propensity to create moral systems evolved because it allowed ancestral humans limit conflict within cooperating groups thus form larger groups, were advantageous intense between-group competition. Alexander sees codes as contractual, the primary criticism his that are not completely contractual but coercive. Ways evaluating well modified versions discussed.