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Sympathy for a Devil’s Chaplain
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Chapter 2 explains why the luminaries of Darwinian science were thought to have cast such a pall over civilised morality and moral feeling. It provides the intellectual history of Darwinian sympathy, beginning with the inheritance of a set of ideas from Adam Smith, as well as a study on how the life of an evolutionist was influenced through living the theory. An analysis of the evolutionary science of emotions argues that evolutionists tended to see themselves at the vanguard of evolutionary development, better able than ‘ordinary’ men, or women, or ‘lower’ races, to feel out the greater good and act accordingly.
Title: Sympathy for a Devil’s Chaplain
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Chapter 2 explains why the luminaries of Darwinian science were thought to have cast such a pall over civilised morality and moral feeling.
It provides the intellectual history of Darwinian sympathy, beginning with the inheritance of a set of ideas from Adam Smith, as well as a study on how the life of an evolutionist was influenced through living the theory.
An analysis of the evolutionary science of emotions argues that evolutionists tended to see themselves at the vanguard of evolutionary development, better able than ‘ordinary’ men, or women, or ‘lower’ races, to feel out the greater good and act accordingly.
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