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Evolution, Human Behaviour and Morality: The Legacy of Westermarck [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 238 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 470 g
  • Serija: Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Jun-2020
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367596156
  • ISBN-13: 9780367596156
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 238 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 470 g
  • Serija: Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Jun-2020
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367596156
  • ISBN-13: 9780367596156
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This book highlights the recent re-emergence of Edward Westermarck's work in modern approaches to morality and altruism, examining his importance as one of the founding fathers of anthropology and as a moral relativist, who identified our moral feelings with biologically-evolved retributive emotions.





Questioning the extent to which current debates on the relationship between biology and morality are similar to those in which Westermarck himself was involved, the authors ask what can be learnt from his arguments and from the criticism that he encountered. Drawing on Westermarck's manuscripts and papers as well as his published work, the authors show the importance of situating debates, whether modern or classical, in their correct methodological and philosophical context.





This volume is a rigorous assessment of the ways in which morality is connected with human biological nature. It plays close attention to the development of debates in this field and will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and philosophy.

Recenzijos

'This book is an important contribution to the revival of interest in Edward Westermarck, one of the greatest but most overlooked of the classical sociologists. Most discussions of Westermarck focus on his now celebrated theory of incest avoidance, but this volume goes beyond that to consider him as a forerunner of evolutionary psychology and his Darwinian understanding of the evolution of morality. In that regard it is especially welcome.' Stephen K. Sanderson, University of California, Riverside, USA

1. Introduction: Westermarck and Modern Evolutionary Approaches to Morality





Part 1: Westermarck and the Emergence of 20th Century Social Anthropology





2. Westermarck and the Emergence of 20th Century Social Anthropology: Three Main Challenges





3. Westermarck, Malinowski and the 'Wild Things': At the Interface between Anthropology, Sexology and Psychoanalysis





4. The Sensitiveness of the Holy: Westermarck and Durkheim on Religion and Society





5. Westermarck, the Evolutionists and the Question of Context





Part 2: Westermarck as a Precursor of Evolutionary Psychology





6. Westermarck as a Precursor of Evolutionary Psychology: The Nature and Nurture of Evolutionary Explanations





7. Itemising Westermarck's Hypothesis: The Assumptions Embedded in Westermarck's Explanation of Human Incest Avoidanc





8. The Westermarck Thesis as a Thinking Tool for Sociobiology





Part 3: The Emotional Origins of Morality





9. The Emotional Origins of Morality: Methodological Issues





10. The Evolution of Westermarck's Theory of Moral Emotions





11. Westermarck and Moore on the Source of Morality





12. Emotions and Moral Relativism: Prinz and Westermarck





Part 4: Evolutionary Psychology of Morality: Critical Perspectives





13. Critical Perspectives on Evolutionary Psychology and Morality





14. Why Altruism May Not be the Right Concept for Understanding Morality





15. Westermarck, Sympathy and Natural Selection





16. Darwinian Conservatives and Westermarck's Ethics: A Political Dimension of the Late 20th Century Westermarckian Renaissance

Olli Lagerspetz is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of Trust, Ethics and Human Reason and co-author of Edward Westermarck: Intellectual Networks, Philosophy and Social Anthropology.





Jan Antfolk is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.





Ylva Gustafsson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.





Camilla Kronqvist is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.