 The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Pagina 2161871Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Dov Ospovat - 1995 - 324 pagina’s
...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man."55 Here, as in other passages quoted above, Darwin uses the... | |
 | Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 356 pagina’s
...was the most important difference between man and the lower animals, but he advanced the proposition that 'any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man'.17 In other words, he tried to work out an empirical natural history of ethics, in which the most... | |
 | Helena Cronin - 1991 - 510 pagina’s
...community' (Darwin 1871, i, p. 97). To this add intelligence and the result is full-fledged morality: 'any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (Darwin 1871, i, pp. 71-2). Other animals go so far as to act as sentinels, groom one another, hunt... | |
 | Misia Landau - 1993 - 222 pagina’s
...and language. "The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable," Darwin writes, " — namely that any animal whatever, endowed with wellmarked...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man" (471-71). As soon as the mental faculties had become highly... | |
 | Lauren Wispé - 1991 - 230 pagina’s
...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed as in man" (DOM, p. 472). In effect, he supported this position by four... | |
 | Carl N. Degler - 1992 - 413 pagina’s
...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had been as well, or nearly as well developed as in man." For he further recognized that human morality... | |
 | Frank M. Turner - 1993 - 392 pagina’s
...whatever, endowed with wellmarked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. '39 He then catalogued a vast array of examples of sociability... | |
 | Marcus Jacobson - 1993 - 408 pagina’s
...beftveen man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. . . . The following proposition seems to me in a high degree...probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed ETHICS IN SCIENCE 319 with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affection being here... | |
 | Mary Midgley - 1994 - 220 pagina’s
...controlling them. This would involve moral thinking. Darwin therefore thought it 'exceedingly likely that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well-developed, or anything like as well-developed, as in man. '(72) The power of thought, if it once... | |
 | Robin Fox - 1994 - 452 pagina’s
...of Darwin's observation in 1871 in The Descent of Man. The following proposition seems to me to be in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal...whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,... | |
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