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Darwin Meets Socrates

Steve Stewart-Williams on the implications of evolutionary theory for ethics.

“Morality is a collective illusion of the genes. We need to believe in morality, and so, thanks to our biology, we do believe in morality. There is no foundation ‘out there’ beyond human nature.” Michael Ruse, Evolutionary Naturalism: Selected Essays, 1995, p.250

Since its birth, Darwin’s theory of evolution has been uniquely controversial.

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