Apel on the origins of moral
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2020v19n3p553Abstract
In the first half of the 1980s Apel tried to situate his discourse ethics within a general reconstruction of the human capacity to think and to act morally. In doing so he recurred to the results of natural sciences such as ethology and evolutionary psychology. The paper aims at discussing Apel’s attempt at an anthropological foundation of the necessity of ethics. The first part shortly presents Apel’s reconstruction of the evolutionary and historical origins of ethics. In the second part this reconstruction is partly amended and defended against alternative explanations of the evolutionary origins of morals.
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