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Darwin suggests sympathy is at the core of sociability and is an instinctive emotion found in most social animals.The ability to recognize and act upon others' distress or danger, is a suggestive evidence of instinctive sympathy; common mutual services found among many social animals, such as hunting and travelling in groups, warning others of danger and mutually defending one another, are ...
The theory of evolution by natural selection has also been adopted as a foundation for various ethical and social systems, such as social Darwinism, an idea that preceded the publication of The Origin of Species, popular in the 19th century, which holds that "the survival of the fittest" (a phrase coined in 1851 by Herbert Spencer, [1] 8 years before Darwin published his theory of evolution ...
[46] Nor does Cohen say that the sort of self-understanding that can be found through religion etc. is accurate. [48] Of nationalism, he says "identifications [can] take benign, harmless, and catastrophically malignant forms" [49] and does not believe "that the state is a good medium for the embodiment of nationality". [50]
Biocentrism (from Greek βίος bios, "life" and κέντρον kentron, "center"), in a political and ecological sense, as well as literally, is an ethical point of view that extends equal inherent value to all living things. [1]
And nature is both the primary matter (and this in two senses: either primary in relation to the thing, or primary in general; e.g., in bronze articles the primary matter in relation to those articles is bronze, but in general it is perhaps water—that is if all things which can be melted are water) and the form or essence, i.e. the end of the ...
In the realm of psychology, the concept of belief congruence suggests that our valuation of beliefs, subsystems or systems of beliefs and people is directly proportional to their congruence with our own belief systems. That similar beliefs promote liking and social harmony among people while dissimilar beliefs produce dislike and prejudice. [1]
Social Nature is the core concept of a geographical work on the social construction of nature, entitled Social nature: theory, practice and politics, which was published by Noel Castree and Bruce Braun in 2001. [1] The book says that the concept of Social Nature was created by critical geographers and embraces the idea of a socialized nature.
Not only do human beings "have the right to a healthy life," but so too does nature, which is the basis of survival for all species including humans. 2. Nature is not just a set of resources that can be exploited, modified, altered, privatized, commercialized and transformed without any consequences. Earth is the only home we have.