Talk:Evolutionary ethics
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[edit] Evolution, Psychology and Ethics
I'm planning to merge most of what was at a page called "Ethics and evolutionary psychology" into this page. I'm grateful to Elembis for saving this content (User:Elembis/Ethics and evolutionary psychology) as I'm bemused as to how the delete discussion decided (weakly) that it wasn't relevant or sourced (granted, the excellent list of source material was listed under 'further reading'). The delete discussion (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethics and evolutionary psychology) mentioned some other relevant books that could be added. I don't know if anything was discussed on the article's talk page because the history has gone - I had previously asked there whether the title should be changed.
There's also a far poorer page called Evolutionary ethic that hasn't been deleted, I guess I'll add a delete tag to it shortly. EverSince 10:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- I think the basic subject of that evolutionary ethic page, to the ideas of one apparently non-mainstream author who's written some books relating to the subject[1], could be merged into this page, leaving a redirect. I'm going to do this now and just leave a redirect back at the original page, and also merge in most of the above ev psych content since no objections raised. EverSince 15:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Well I've made a start merging things, obviously very imperfect and needing a lot of work. Re. Garcia I don't really know, but there's lots of vaguely philosophical stuff around that's vaguely related to evolution and ethics, at least in name, where should it all go? EverSince 16:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks for your edit. I've removed the mention of Garcia, since his "evolutionary ethic" is unrelated and the current mention of it relied on a self-published source, and I've put the sources you added in a "Further reading" section, since the article itself doesn't cite them yet (see this edit). — Elembis (talk · contribs) 21:05, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Evolutionary ethiC
I quickly merged evolutionary ethic here, then decided the content is so poor that I should simply move it here for discussion concerning its relevancy. Here it goes:
[edit] Garcia
The evolutionary ethic, proposed by John David Garcia,[citation needed] holds that the ultimate goal of human life is to maximize total creativity.
Garcia proposed that the evolutionary ethic should become the founding principle of a new society, just as the "libertarian ethic" is the organizing principle of American democracy and the "materialistic ethic" is the organizing principle of Marxism-Leninism.[citation needed] The "libertarian ethic" holds that the maximization of freedom is the ultimate good. The "materialistic ethic" holds that the maximization of every person's security—particularly economic security—is the ultimate good. The evolutionary ethic requires one to look at one's life from a more detached and bloodless perspective than most people are capable of: most people identify strongly with their own happiness and that of their loved ones and will refuse to identify instead with an abstract and impersonal process. Nevertheless, there are people for whom the process that increases the creativity of themselves and those around them is a more essential and immediate part of themselves than their own bodies, comfort and survival are.[citation needed]
Cheers! Lapaz (talk) 19:30, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
