In the intimacy of thought
Darwin’s notebooks on the moral sense of man
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6136230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Palmira Fontes Da Costa (0000-0001-9477-9040, corresponding author), Paulo Gama Mota (0000-0002-1880-5574) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 26-27 |
| Pages | 137-147 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antropologia Portuguesa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0870-0990 • E-ISSN: 2182-7982 |
| Publisher | Coimbra University Press (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.14195/2182-7982_27_8 |
| OpenAlex | W2312594752 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
With the recognition that we, like all living beings, belong to a species that has evolved through natural selection, comes the acknowledgement that evolutionary processes have shaped us profoundly.But how profoundly?Darwin acknowledged that of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important.Could this specific human faculty reflect our evolutionary heritage?Darwin's affirmative answer to this question was only published in 1871 in his work The Descent of Man.However, his first thoughts on the problem date from much further back and accompanied his early ideas on the transformation of species.This article analysis Darwin's notebooks on the moral sense of man.These personal documents enable us to know who were the philosophers that influenced him more on such a fundamental question, what were the problems and obstacles that concerned him more as well as what were the thought leaps and patterns that he took in order to better answer a subject that had implications at both a philosophical and biological level
Darwin (ADL · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Sense (electronics · Chemistry · Computer Science · Evolution and Science Education · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |