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COMMENTS ON GEORGE WILLIAMS'S ESSAY ON MORALITY AND NATURE
Author(s) -
Hrdy Sarah Bluffer
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00853.x
Subject(s) - george (robot) , morality , task (project management) , epistemology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , sociology , psychology , environmental ethics , history , economics , art history , management
. Although there is no questioning the heroism of those who “rebel against the selfish replicators” their task seems very nearly insurmountable. I question whether anyone can formulate a broadly acceptable moral system that will not in some respects be constrained by the legacy of generations spent as selfish and kin‐selected replicators.