Kanthian Ethics And the Ethics of Evolution a Critical Study
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A science of physics is possible, but a science of ethics is impossible under this conception of the universe. If man is nothing but a congeries of feelings and ideas, which a blindly working nature has set up, without purpose and without aim, if his actions are the necessary consequences of feelings which are neither caused by him nor subject to his control, does it not seem evident that moral responsibility is meaningless Ethics of Evolution. 69 . And duty a vain mocking word ? If we are mere...ly the arena in which events happen, and not the self-centred personalities from whom actions take their source, then morality consists in a simple laissez-faire, and ethics is not distinguishable from physics. 4. Evolutionistic Hedonism. But though our final result is that the mechanical con- ception of the universe cannot be reconciled with the deliverances of the moral consciousness, it is notorious that evolution, as thus interpreted, has been applied and, as is widely supposed, with success to the problems of moral philosophy.
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