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1 Setting the Stage for Reflecting on a Universal Morality |
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1.1.1 The Darwinian Revolution |
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2 | (1) |
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1.1.2 The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis |
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3 | (2) |
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1.1.3 The Molecular-Genetic Revolution |
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5 | (1) |
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1.1.4 The Second Darwinian Revolution |
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5 | (5) |
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1.2 The Hominisation Process |
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10 | (4) |
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1.3 The Modernisation Process |
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14 | (3) |
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1.4 Confronting Hominisation with Modernisation |
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17 | (2) |
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1.5 The Time Dimension: The Third Millennium |
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19 | (2) |
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2 Origin and Evolution of Morality |
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21 | (66) |
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2.1 Evolutionary Mechanisms Producing Predispositions to Morality |
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21 | (23) |
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22 | (2) |
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24 | (18) |
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42 | (1) |
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2.1.4 Genetic and Cultural Drift |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (1) |
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2.2 Evolutionary Background of Morality |
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44 | (43) |
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2.2.1 A Brief Review of Evolutionary Ethics Theory |
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45 | (14) |
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2.2.2 Biological Bases of Morality: Natural Needs and Drives |
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59 | (2) |
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2.2.3 Evolutionary Causes of Human Morality |
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61 | (5) |
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2.2.4 Major Stages in the Evolution and Historical Development of Morality and Content of Moral Systems |
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66 | (8) |
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2.2.5 Biological Determinants of Moral Behaviour |
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74 | (7) |
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2.2.6 Why Variability in Moral Behaviour? |
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81 | (3) |
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2.2.7 Moral Ambiguity of the Evolutionary Mechanism |
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84 | (3) |
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3 Adaptive and Maladaptive Features of Religious Beliefs as Sources of Morality |
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87 | (68) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (8) |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (1) |
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3.2.5 Relations Between Religiosity, Spirituality and Morality |
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93 | (3) |
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3.3 Origin and Evolution of Religion/Religiosity/Spirituality |
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96 | (14) |
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3.3.1 Earliest Signs of Religion/Religiosity/Spirituality |
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97 | (1) |
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3.3.2 Kinship-Based/Tribal Religions |
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98 | (1) |
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3.3.3 Organised or World Religions |
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98 | (12) |
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3.4 Some Anthropological Questions and Paradoxes About Religions as Sources of Morality |
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110 | (3) |
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3.5 Biological Determinants of Religiosity and Spirituality |
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113 | (7) |
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3.5.1 Genetics of Religiosity and Spirituality |
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113 | (3) |
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3.5.2 Neurological Basis of Religiosity and Spirituality |
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116 | (4) |
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3.6 Evolutionary Advantages and Disadvantages of Religion |
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120 | (17) |
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3.6.1 Proximate Advantages of Religion in the Pre-scientific Era |
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121 | (7) |
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3.6.2 Ultimate Advantages of Religion in the Pre-scientific Era |
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128 | (1) |
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3.6.3 Place of Religious Beliefs and Religions in Modernisation |
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129 | (6) |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (18) |
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3.7.1 Creationism, Creation Science and Intelligent Design |
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144 | (9) |
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3.7.2 Challenges for Replacing Religion by Science as the Source of Morality |
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153 | (2) |
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4 Challenges of Major Secular Ideologies |
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155 | (34) |
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155 | (4) |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (1) |
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4.2 The Major Secular Ideologies of Modernity |
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159 | (26) |
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159 | (6) |
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165 | (4) |
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169 | (6) |
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175 | (2) |
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177 | (5) |
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182 | (3) |
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4.3 Constraints of Secular Ideologies as Sources of Universal Morality |
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185 | (4) |
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4.3.1 The Fragmented Nature of Secular Ideologies |
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186 | (1) |
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4.3.2 The Short-Term Approach of Secular Ideologies |
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187 | (1) |
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4.3.3 The Macro-level Approach of Secular Ideologies |
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187 | (2) |
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5 Evolution-Based Universal Morality |
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189 | (52) |
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5.1 Need for a Universal and Inclusive Morality |
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189 | (3) |
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5.2 Rationale for Evolution-Based Ethical Choices |
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192 | (3) |
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5.3 Evolution-Based General Ethical Pursuits |
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195 | (44) |
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5.3.1 Ethical Prerequirements |
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195 | (7) |
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5.3.2 The Main Aim: The Phylogenetic Enhancement of the Hominisation Process |
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202 | (29) |
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5.3.3 General Ethical Derivations from a Progressing Hominisation |
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231 | (8) |
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5.4 Evolutionary-Based Specific Ethical Challenges Related to Sources of Biological Variability |
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239 | (2) |
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6 Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges Related to Individual Variability |
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241 | (64) |
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241 | (1) |
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242 | (13) |
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6.2.1 Evolutionary Background of Growth and Senescence |
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242 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Developments in Modernity Regarding Age Variability |
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243 | (4) |
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6.2.3 Ethical Reflections Regarding Age Variability in Modernity |
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247 | (8) |
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255 | (19) |
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6.3.1 Evolutionary Background of Sex Variability |
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255 | (8) |
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6.3.2 Changes of Sex Relations in Modernity |
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263 | (7) |
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6.3.3 Ethical Reflections Regarding Sex Variability in Modernity |
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270 | (4) |
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6.4 Individual Variability in General |
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274 | (11) |
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6.4.1 Evolutionary Background of Individual Variability |
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275 | (1) |
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6.4.2 Developments in Modernity Regarding Individual Variability |
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276 | (4) |
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6.4.3 Ethical Reflections Regarding Individual Variability |
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280 | (5) |
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6.5 Interpersonal Relations |
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285 | (20) |
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6.5.1 Evolutionary Background of Interpersonal Relations |
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285 | (7) |
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6.5.2 Interpersonal Relations in Modernity |
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292 | (9) |
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6.5.3 Ethical Reflections Regarding Interpersonal Relations |
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301 | (4) |
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7 Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges Related to Group Relations |
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305 | (32) |
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305 | (1) |
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306 | (9) |
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7.2.1 Evolutionary Background of Family Variability |
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306 | (3) |
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7.2.2 Family Variability in Modernity |
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309 | (3) |
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7.2.3 Ethical Reflections About Family Variability in Modernity |
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312 | (3) |
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7.3 Social Status Hierarchies |
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315 | (7) |
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7.3.1 Evolutionary Background of Social Status Hierarchies |
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315 | (2) |
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7.3.2 Developments in Modernity Regarding Social Status Allocation |
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317 | (2) |
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7.3.3 Ethical Reflections Regarding Social Status Acquisition |
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319 | (3) |
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7.4 Race, Ethnicity, Worldview, and Political Conviction |
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322 | (6) |
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7.4.1 Evolutionary Background of In-Group/Out-Group Relations |
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323 | (3) |
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7.4.2 Developments in Modernity of In-Group/Out-Group Relations |
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326 | (1) |
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7.4.3 Ethical Reflections About In-Group/Out-Group Relations |
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326 | (2) |
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7.5 Competition and Cooperation Between States |
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328 | (9) |
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7.5.1 Evolutionary Background of Relations Between States |
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328 | (3) |
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7.5.2 Developments of Relations Between States in Modernity |
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331 | (1) |
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7.5.3 Ethical Reflections about Relations between States |
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332 | (5) |
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8 Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges Related to Intergenerational Replacement |
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337 | (58) |
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337 | (1) |
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8.2 Quantitative Issues Regarding Reproductive Behaviour |
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338 | (19) |
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8.2.1 Evolutionary Background of Population Growth |
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338 | (2) |
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8.2.2 Demographic Developments in Modernity |
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340 | (8) |
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8.2.3 Ethical Reflections Regarding Population Growth |
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348 | (9) |
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8.3 Qualitative Issues Regarding Reproductive Behaviour |
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357 | (36) |
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8.3.1 Evolutionary Background of Qualitative Intergenerational Changes |
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358 | (1) |
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8.3.2 Qualitative Reproductive Developments in Modernity |
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358 | (13) |
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8.3.3 Ethical Reflections Regarding Qualitative Reproductive Issues |
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371 | (22) |
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8.4 Complementarity of Quantitative and Qualitative Reproductive Goals |
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393 | (2) |
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9 Conclusions and Final Reflections |
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395 | (14) |
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9.1 Ideological Conflicts in the Modern World and the Need for a Universal Ethic |
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395 | (1) |
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9.2 Evolution-Based General Ethical Goals for the Future |
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396 | (4) |
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9.2.1 Preservation of Ecological Sustainability |
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397 | (1) |
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9.2.2 The Cultural Furtherance of the Modernisation Process |
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397 | (1) |
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9.2.3 Phylogenetic Enhancement of the Hominisation Process |
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398 | (1) |
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9.2.4 The Ontogenetic Development of Human-Specific Potentialities |
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398 | (1) |
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9.2.5 The Promotion of Quality of Life |
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398 | (1) |
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9.2.6 The Promotion of Equity |
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399 | (1) |
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9.2.7 The Necessary Shift from Competitive Towards Cooperative Behaviour |
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399 | (1) |
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9.2.8 The Promotion of Universalism |
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399 | (1) |
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9.3 Evolution-Based Specific Ethical Challenges |
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400 | (1) |
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9.4 Reconciling Religious and Secular Ideologies and Evolutionary Goals |
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400 | (9) |
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