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New page: '''Moral naturalism''' is the theory of evolution applied to ethics. It is a subset of Social Darwinism. Rather than defining morality as a set of divine commands, moral natur...
'''Moral naturalism''' is the theory of [[evolution]] applied to [[ethics]]. It is a subset of [[Social Darwinism]]. Rather than defining morality as a set of divine commands, moral naturalism sees morality as merely an unintended side-effect of the social interaction of free agents, in the same manner that [[natural selection]] is said to adjust the characteristics of organisms to changing environmental conditions.
== Sources ==
Flew, Anthony. ''A Dictionary of Philosophy, Revised Second Edition,'' St. Martin's Press, N.Y., 1979
== Sources ==
Flew, Anthony. ''A Dictionary of Philosophy, Revised Second Edition,'' St. Martin's Press, N.Y., 1979