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• Title: Ethical Naturalism in the Thought of Edward O. Wilson a Critical Review of His Major Works (Critical Essay)
• Author : Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 278 KB

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Ethical Naturalism defines ethics as coming from within the cosmos as an internally generated code of behavior. Ethics is what is prescribed by the world (natural environment). Morality is doing the right thing because it is best for the world. Moral behavior is doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do for the world. What will be done in this essay is to critically review the key works of the leading environmental biologist today, Professor E. O. Wilson of Harvard University, with special attention given to the emergence of an ethical school of thought (1). This school of thought, based upon evolutionary biology, is called "ethical naturalism" and provides an alternative to "ethical human" in the tradition of Sir Julian Huxley and "ethical theism" in the monotheistic traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Wilson's inquiries into the new science called "sociobiology" argue that social animals, including humans, behave largely according to rules written in their very genes. The theory sparked controversy because it not only appeared to contradict cherished beliefs about free will, but also, according to critics, harked back to retrograde ideologies charging that some human groups were biologically superior to others. He and his colleagues have over the years defended and refined sociobiology such that at this point it is now a dictionary word. of this new discipline and the resulting book he says:

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