Can Science Help Construct a New Global Ethic? The Development and Implications of Moral Transformation Theory

This paper reports the results of a ten-year search for consensus among scientific findings on the nature of the origin and development of moral sensitivity and morality. Significant agreement on six underlying factors was found. Based on these foundations, a new theory of moral transformation and a...

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1. VerfasserIn: Loye, David (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 1999
In: Zygon
Jahr: 1999, Band: 34, Heft: 2, Seiten: 221-235
weitere Schlagwörter:B Moral Sensitivity
B Cultural Evolution
B Values
B Science
B Religion
B biological evolution
B brain research
B Global Ethic
B evolutionary theory
B Social Action
B Morality
B cosmicevolution
B “two worlds”
B Love
B dominator morality
B partnership morality
B freedom and equality
B gender relations
B systems science
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Zusammenfassung:This paper reports the results of a ten-year search for consensus among scientific findings on the nature of the origin and development of moral sensitivity and morality. Significant agreement on six underlying factors was found. Based on these foundations, a new theory of moral transformation and a scientific “global ethic” relating to the global ethic of Hans Kung and the Parliament of the World's Religions is proposed. Fields surveyed include psychology, sociology, political science, economics, history, and gender and feminist studies in social science; physics and biology in natural science; and brain research, archaeology, and both old and new evolutionary studies and theory, including chaos, self-organizing, and other nonlinear theories, in systems science.
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00208