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Browsing Science & Religion: Anthologies and Journal Articles by Subject "altruism"

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    Religion: naturalized, socialized, evaluated
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1999) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Cambridge University Press, publisher
    Evolutionary history on the prolific Earth, resulting in nature producing spirit (Geist). The origins of evil and sin in the genesis of human life. The necessity of suffering in evolutionary creation. Religion evolving to increase human fertility. Religion generating altruism, interpreted as both pseudoaltruism and as genuine altruism. The survival value of religion. Testing religions socially and cognitively. Creativity in actual and possible natural history as the genesis of information, the genesis of value, in which theists can detect transcendent divine presence.
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    Review of Kenneth Cauthen's Process ethics: a constructive system
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1986) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Joint Publication Board of Zygon, publisher
    This is a process oriented theology, blending Christian ethics based on the Bible and moral philosophy based on reason and experience. He synthesizes rights-based and utilitarian ethics, agape and eros, love and justice, individual and community, Christian ethics and evolutionary processes, self-love and altruism.
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    SuperCooperators: altruism, evolution, and why we need each other to succeed (review)
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Joint Publication Board of Zygon, publisher
    Martin Nowak hopes by mathematical analysis to show that evolution generates Super-cooperators. Personal anecdotes here undermine his fundamental claim that everything and anything that happens in the universe is the consequence of universal logic acting on universal rules. Nowak presents "the bright side of biology," the importance of cooperation in evolution. He thinks the long-term and ongoing results may be open. "Cooperation comes and goes, waxes and wanes. It has to be reborn in endless cycles." Although his account might show the natural history of how cooperation evolved, it is powerless to explain how a universal ethic could be produced or kept in place, as promoted, for example, by Good Samaritans, who share both compassion and their creeds, so that there is no differential genetic benefit.
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    Terrestrial and extraterrestrial altruism
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, publisher
    How Earthbound are values and ethics? We humans enjoy a surprising transcendence of localized body and place. We are always situated somewhere, but it does not follow that all our knowledge is situational. True, science is a human enterprise. True, ethics is a human activity - even biologically-based. But can we expect to share some of our science and ethics with extraterrestrials? Perhaps in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the question to ask is not about the value of pi, or the atomic number of carbon. A more revealing test might be to ask whether one should tell the truth, keep promises, or be just. The Golden Rule may be as universally true as is the theory of relativity.
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    The Good Samaritan and his genes - audio/video lecture
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2002-11-09) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
    This is a lecture given by Holmes Rolston at a conference on Biology and Morality at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 9, 2002.
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    Unlimited love and its limits
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Templeton Press, publisher
    Love is the cardinal virtue, commendably exemplified in the life and thought of Sir John Templeton. But love is not the only virtue, or duty. Neither in deontological ethics nor in utilitarianism is altruism the pivotal principle. Altruism needs complementing with justice. An inclusive ethics argues that what the impoverished, the poor, the downtrodden are entitled to is not so much charity as recognition of their human rights. Waiting for the philanthropic wealthy to fix the ever-increasing inequities between the rich and the poor looks in the wrong direction for a solution to the most pressing moral issue on the world agenda.