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23 - Evolutionary Ethics: A Potentially Helpful Framework in Engineering a Better Society

from Part IV - Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2019

Ali E. Abbas
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University of Southern California
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Examinations of whether particular actions or intentions are ethical or not must grapple with the questions of what the applicable ethical standards are, how people may act in particular situations and why. These are difficult questions and the subject of much inquiry. There are many schools of thought and disciplines for answers, from religious traditions to philosophical to psychology.

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Next-Generation Ethics
Engineering a Better Society
, pp. 343 - 368
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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