tailieunhanh - PRIMATES AND PHILOSOPHERS Part 7

Simian gồm các loài khỉ và khỉ không đuôi. Gần đây, các nhà phân loại học đã đặt ra phân bộ Strepsirrhini, hay linh trưởng mũi cong, bao gồm prosimian không phải tarsier và phân họ Haplorrhini, hay linh trưởng mũi khôs, bao gồm tarsiers và simian. | 124 PHILIP KITCHER evolutionary process that yields human morality to be the same as some prehuman starting point. It is no more but no less plausible than Veneer Theory as de Waal characterizes it. All the interesting positions lie somewhere in between. De Waal prefaces his lectures with a quotation from the late Stephen Jay Gould indeed from a passage in which Gould was responding to sociobiological accounts of human nature. I think it s worth reflecting on another observation of Gould s the comment that when we utter the sentence Human beings are descended from apes we can change the emphasis to bring out either the continuities or the differences. Or to vary the point Darwin s phrase descent with modification captures two aspects of the evolutionary process descent and modification. What is least satisfactory about de Waal s lectures is his substitution of vague language building blocks direct outgrowth for any specific suggestions about what has descended and what has been modified. Lambasting a view like his Veneer Theory or like STCT is not enough. III In fact de Waal provides a little more than I have so far granted. He has been attuned to developments in evolutionary ethics or in the evolution of ethics during the past fifteen years a period in which the naive reductions favored in sociobiological accounts have given way to proposals of an alliance between Darwin and Hume. The sentimentalist tradition in ethical theory in which as de Waal rightly sees Adam Smith deserves at least equal billing with Hume has COMMENT 125 won increased favor with philosophers. As it has done so would-be evolutionary ethicists have felt the appeal of what I shall call the Hume-Smith lure. The lure consists in focusing on the central role of sympathy in the ethical accounts offered by Hume and Smith. So you first claim that moral conduct consists in the expression of the appropriate passions and that sympathy is central to these passions. Then you argue that chimpanzees have .

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