The Biological Basis of Ethics

A very warm welcome to everyone - new and old - to the 2nd season of “Not A Doctor” podcast. In this first episode, I take a look at the biology behind ethics and morals - is it something made up philosophically and through society, or is there a biological basis to it?

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Bibliography:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261968263_The_Biological_Foundations_of_Ethics

Morality and Evolutionary Biology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/

Darwin, C., 1859, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, London: John Murray. 1871, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, New York: Appleton.

Dawkins, R., 1976, The Selfish Gene, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hamilton, W. D., 1964, ‘The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour I and II’, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7: 1–16, 17–32.

Sober, E., 1988, ‘What is Evolutionary Altruism?’, in New Essays on Philosophy and Biology (Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supp. Vol. 14), B. Linsky and M. Mathen (eds.), Calgary: University of Calgary Press. 1994, ‘Did Evolution Make us Psychological Egoists?’, in his From A Biological Point of View, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011, Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?, New York: Prometheus.

Sober, E. and Wilson D.S., 1998, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

Music & Audio credits:

Intro by Breakz Studios from Pixabay

Music by LofCosmos from Pixabay