Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:44:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [HAB:] Mark one for evolutionary ethics?


re: Evolutionary/biological origins of fairness

Jeremy,

Yes, I, too, saw the article, and it is extremely
interesting. It calls to mind other recent work on natural
sociality, all of which goes to the concept of an "ethic of
the species" in Habermas' _The Future of Human Nature_.
OBVIOUSLY, Habermas means something neo-Kantian by "ethic,"
but his protracted resort to the Darwinian idiom suggests
the topic of evolutionary ethics, which I'm deeply engaged
with.

Gary

P.S. Thanks for the recollection on 'quasi-transcendental'.
You WOULD know, of course. (What became of Trent Schroyer?)


--- "Jeremy J. Shapiro" <jshapiro-AT-fielding.edu> wrote:
> Some of you would surely be interested in the
> implications of the recent 
> research that capuchin monkeys' behavior is regulated by
> notions or 
> expectations of fairness.   See today's New York Times
> discussion of this at
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/opinion/21SUN3.html?ex=1065158751&ei=1&en=f54441d1d7409fa8
> 
> 
> 	Jeremy 
> 
> 
> 
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