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The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology is a 1981 book by Peter Singer bridging the topics of sociobiology and ethics . Arguments. The central tenet of the book is that over the course of human history, people have expanded the circle of beings whose interests they are willing to value similarly to their own.
- Anthony Manser, Peter Singer
- 1981
May 8, 2011 · In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one’s kin and community members but has developed into a consciously chosen ethic with an expanding circle of moral concern.
In linguistics, the "expanding circle" refers to countries in which English has no special administrative status but is widely studied as a foreign language.
What is ethics. Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation.
- 9780.7B
- Published-Apr 18 2011
- Princeton University Press
It enables us to see ethics as a mode of human reasoning which develops in a group context, building on more limited, biologically based forms of altruism. So ethics loses its air of mystery. Its principles are not laws written up in heaven. Nor are they absolute truths about the universe, known by intuition.
Jan 1, 2001 · "The Expanding Circle" explores the evolutionary origins of altruism, and argues that expanding one's circle of concern to encompass all people - call it ethics - is a necessary consequence of rationality.
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Apr 18, 2011 · In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one's kin and community members but has developed into a consciously chosen ethic with an expanding circle of moral concern.
