New publication of R. Ebert, “Ethics after Darwin: Completing the Revolution”

A new paper of Rainer Ebert, “Ethics after Darwin: Completing the Revolution“, has been published in the Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics (vol.11, n.3, 2020).

Abstract

This is a big-picture discussion of an important implication of Darwinism for ethics. I argue that there is a misfit between our scientific view of the natural world and the view, still dominant in academic philosophy and wider society alike, that there is a discrete hierarchy of moral status among conscious beings. I will suggest that the clear line of traditional morality – between human beings and other animals – is a remnant of an obsolete moral outlook, not least because it has no counterpart in empirical reality, and I will invite the reader to think, with me, about tenable alternatives.