Goldstein A New Morality from Science

Beyondism
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4832-9309-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 503 Seiten, Web PDF

A New Morality from Science

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldstein, Arnold P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;A New Morality from Science: Beyondism;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;12
6;PART I: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF AN EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS;20
6.1;Chapter 1. Three Gateways to the Understanding of Life;22
6.1.1;1.1 Understanding Life: Discovering Moral Goals;22
6.1.2;1.2 A Riddle Couched in Three Questions;23
6.1.3;1.3 Concerning the Competence of Science to Answer;26
6.1.4;1.4 Humanity and the Ever-Open Gateway of Religion;31
6.1.5;1.5 An Examination of Our Equipment for Knowing: Rational, Empirical, and Emotional Tests of Truth;39
6.1.6;1.6 The Gateway of the Arts and Literature;43
6.1.7;1.7 Summary;46
6.1.8;1.8 Notes for Chapter 1;48
6.2;Chapter 2. The Origins of Present Uncertainty and Confusion;50
6.2.1;2.1 Moral Confusion and the Recession of Revealed Religions;50
6.2.2;2.2 Are the Social Sciences Yet Sciences?;55
6.2.3;2.3 The Nature of the Present Contraband Values in Applied Sciences;57
6.2.4;2.4 How Rational are Rationalist Values?;60
6.2.5;2.5 The Absence of Institutional Mechanisms Specifically to Create Progress;66
6.2.6;2.6 Social Construction Without Positive Value Construction;72
6.2.7;2.7 The Treacherous Alloys of "Scientific" and "Revealed" Truth;76
6.2.8;2.8 Summary;81
6.2.9;2.9 Notes for Chapter 2;84
6.3;Chapter 3 The Basic Logic of Beyondism;90
6.3.1;3.1 The Bond of Religion with Morality, in Inspired, Metaphysical and Scientific Perspectives;90
6.3.2;3.2 Is Evolution as Presently Known Acceptable as the Fundamental Theme?;95
6.3.3;3.3 The Check of Group Upon Individual Natural Selection: Cooperative Competition;99
6.3.4;3.4 Defining Evolutionary Advance;105
6.3.5;3.5 The Planned Bio-Cultural Diversity of Groups in the Great Experiment;110
6.3.6;3.6 The Moral Ideals of Inter-Group Competition;114
6.3.7;3.7 Moral Laws Within-Groups and the Fallacy of Universalization;117
6.3.8;3.8 Summary;123
6.3.9;3.9 Notes for Chapter 3;127
6.4;Chapter 4. The Moral Directives Derivable from the Beyondist Goal: 1. Among Individuals in a Community;132
6.4.1;4.1 Problems in Deriving Objective Non-Relativistic Ethics from Stating a Fixed Goal in a Changing World;132
6.4.2;4.2 Expected Degrees of Determination of Within-Group Behavioral Norms by Beyondist Principles;138
6.4.3;4.3 The Pressing Requirement of Developing a Morals Branch of Social Science;143
6.4.4;4.4 Some Fragmentary Technical Beginnings in Relating Group V;147
6.4.5;4.5 The Necessary Extension of Within-Group Moral Concerns to Genetic Futures;160
6.4.6;4.6 The Elimination of Parasitic Behavior among Cultural Institutions and Genetic Sub-Groups;167
6.4.7;4.7 The Right and Duty of a Society to Pursue Its Own Culturo-Genetic Experiment;173
6.4.8;4.8 Summary;181
6.4.9;4.9 Notes for Chapter 4;185
6.5;Chapter 5 The Moral Directives from the Beyondist Goal: II. Inter-Group Ethics;194
6.5.1;5.1 The Nature of Groups and the Primary Role of their Competition;194
6.5.2;5.2 By What Secondary Rules Can Man Aid Competitive Group Evolution?;198
6.5.3;5.3 The Mode of Operation, and Ethical Status of Cultural and Racial Transplantation;201
6.5.4;5.4 Political Struggle and the Ethical Meaning of Imperialism;207
6.5.5;5.5 The Functionality and Moral Value of Economic and Population Growth Competition;210
6.5.6;5.6 Some Emotional Astigmatisms Thwarting Attempts to Reduce War;217
6.5.7;5.7 The Functions of War and the Development of a Functional Substitute;222
6.5.8;5.8 The Natural Selection Value of Intellectual Culture and Psychological Warfare;227
6.5.9;5.9 Summary;235
6.5.10;5.10 Notes for Chapter 5;244
7;PART II: THE IMPACT OF BEYONDIST PRINCIPLES AND THE INSTITUTIONS REQUIRED BY THEM IN THE MODERN WORLD;254
7.1;Chapter 6. Psychological Problems in Human Adjustment to the New Ethics;256
7.1.1;6.1 The Clash of Moral Culture and Human Nature: Original Sin;256
7.1.2;6.2 Adjustment to Morality in the Light of General Principles of Psychological Adjustment;262
7.1.3;6.3 The Superego and the Pleasure and Reality Principles;269
7.1.4;6.4 Emotional Social Defenses Against Demands of Evolutionary Ethics;273
7.1.5;6.5 Human Rights in the Light of Beyondist Morality;282
7.1.6;6.6 The Well Springs of Religious Devotion in the Past and in the Future;289
7.1.7;6.7 The Oscillations of Environmental and Cultural Pressure, and the Assessment of Urgency;293
7.1.8;6.8 The Off-Balance Environment, the Masochistic Reserve, and the Danger of the Hedonic Pact;297
7.1.9;6.9 Summary;302
7.1.10;6.10 Notes for Chapter 6;305
7.2;Chapter 7 The Departures of Beyondism from Traditional and Current Ethical Systems;314
7.2.1;7.1 Tentative but Crucial Illustrations of Value Innovations in Beyondism;314
7.2.2;7.2 Religious, Communist and Beyondist Contrasts on the Virtue of Charitableness;320
7.2.3;7.3 The Relation of Beyondism to Modern Eclectic Movements, as in Communism, Humanism and Existentialism;326
7.2.4;7.4 The Contrasts with Humanism Illustrated with Respect to Crime and Punishment;329
7.2.5;7.5 Some Further Disparities of "Secular Religious Values" and Beyondism;333
7.2.6;7.6 The Differentiation of Beyondism from Communistic and Capitalistic Values;338
7.2.7;7.7 The Relation to Entrenched but Implicit Values in Social Economics;342
7.2.8;7.8 Summary;347
7.2.9;7.9 Notes for Chapter 7;350
7.3;Chapter 8. The Impact of Evolutionary Values on Current Socio-Political Practices;356
7.3.1;8.1 The Reconstruction Needed for a Scientifically Rational Politics;356
7.3.2;8.2 Installing Eugenic Control as a Function of Government;365
7.3.3;8.3 The Economic Expression of Ethics: in Income, Insurance, Taxation, Migration and Productivity;371
7.3.4;8.4 Community Goals in Population Size, Class and Internal Diversity;385
7.3.5;8.5 Sexual Morals in Relation to Rationalist and Beyondist Values;390
7.3.6;8.6 Some Readjustments of Values Needed in Education;393
7.3.7;8.7 The Unsolved Pollution Problems of the Mass Communication Media;399
7.3.8;8.8 Summary;402
7.3.9;8.9 Notes for Chapter 8;407
7.4;Chapter 9. The Integration of the Emotional Life with Progressive Institutions;420
7.4.1;9.1 The Varieties of Conscience and Their Institutional Parallels;420
7.4.2;9.2 The Leadership of the Within-Group Moral Research Institutes;425
7.4.3;9.3 The Setting of the Research Institutes for the World Federation and the Free Enquirers;429
7.4.4;9.4 On Organizing a Revolution of Values by Evolutionary Methods;433
7.4.5;9.5 What Are the Roles of Authority and of Toleration of Deviation?;439
7.4.6;9.6 The Mutual Services of Beyondism and the Arts;445
7.4.7;9.7 The Emotional Meaning of Beyondism to the Individual;449
7.4.8;9.8 Summary;457
7.4.9;9.9 Notes to Chapter 9;462
8;REFERENCES;474
9;NAME INDEX;488
10;SUBJECT INDEX;496