Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA ...

...Huxley argued that cosmic evolution and human ethics were permanently at odds. Ethical progress depended “not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatting it.” Although restraining individual selfassertion, ethics ultimately weakened society...

...natural trend of evolution should be actively opposed. “Let us understand once and for all,” he said, “that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less on running away from it, but in combatting it!' 5 On the other hand, Peter Kropotkin, a Russian prince,...

...ethics which is the outcome of the evolutionary nisus on the human level. TH, on the other hand, held that “The ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process... but on combatting it.” Toulmin concludes that we cannot choose between these views on scientific...

An enthralling account of the arguments about altruism and sexual selection raging since Darwin's day.

Lawrence Johnson advocates a major change in our attitude toward the nonhuman world. He argues that nonhuman animals, and ecosystems themselves, are morally significant beings ...

...why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil" ([11], p. 80). The ethical progress, then, depends "not on imitating the cosmic process, still...less in running away from it, but in combating it. Human culture and cultivated humans need succeeded in building up an arfiticial world within the cosmos",...

...first principles of ethics; what becomes of this surprising theory? Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not...less in running away from it but in combating it. It may seem an audacious proposal thus to pit the microcosm against the macrocosm and to set man to...

...Huxley to reverse himself completely in 1893 with this declaration: "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not...less in running away from it, but in combating it." 30 Perhaps Grandcourt, depicted in repeatedly zoological terms, is also suggestive of Eliot's reluctance...

...ethics, in which self-sacrifice and ‘the fitting of as many as possible to survive' are imperative. ‘The ethical progress of Society depends, not on...less in running away from it, but in combating it'. 7 ° Vivekananda's work was equally preoccupied with the place of humanity within nature, and it operated...