Evolutionary Morality and Its Criticism

Year 2015, Issue: 19, 153 - 174, 01.05.2015

Fatih Özgökman

Abstract

It has been thought that the moral law which we find as ready within us, in terms of origin, connects people to God. However, the theory of evolution asserts that all the living things and their behaviors are made up of natural selection. Accordingly, the reason why we have the current ethical behaviours is genes which cause them are supporting to survive and reproduction. However, human moral consciousness has the ability to judge and change the evolutionary behaviour. This implies the morality can not be explained by evolutionary algorithms only

Keywords

Moralıty, Evolution, Altruism, Naturalist Fallacy

EVRİMSEL AHLAK VE ELEŞTİRİSİ

Abstract

İçimizde hazır bulduğumuz ahlak yasasının, kökeni açısından, insanı Tanrı’ya bağladığı düşünüle gelmiştir. Bununla birlikte evrim teorisi, tüm canlı yapılar ve davranışlarının doğal seçilimle oluştuğunu ileri sürer. Buna göre mevcut ahlaki davranışlara sahip olmamızın nedeni, onlara neden olan genlerin hayatta kalmayı ve üremeyi desteklemesidir. Bununla birlikte insanın ahlak bilinci, evrimsel davranışı yargılama ve değiştirme yeteneğine sahiptir. Bu bize ahlakın sadece evrimci algoritmayla açıklanamayacağını ima eder

Keywords

Ahlak, Evrim, Diğerkâmlık, Natüralist Yanılgı

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