
“Ethical individualism… is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life.”
Philosophy of Freedom, Chapter 12
Source: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
“Ethical individualism… is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life.”
Philosophy of Freedom, Chapter 12
The Human Origin of Morals http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/mccabe02.htm (1926), p. 59.
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)
“Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly ‘tracks’ the changing environment.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 179)
"Modern Ethics", pp. 268–269
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Ethical Kinship
Invited talk, delivered at the joint Indo-US Workshop on System of Systems Engineering http://www.bvinst.edu/gomatam/pub-2009-02.pdf, IIT-Kanpur, October 26-28, 2009.
Context: The Schrödinger equation, which is at the heart of quantum theory, is applicable in principle to both microscopic and macroscopic regimes. Thus, it would seem that we already have in hand a non-classical theory of macroscopic dynamics, if only we can apply the Schrödinger equation to the macroscopic realm. However, this possibility has been largely ignored in the literature because the current statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics presumes the classicality of the observed macroscopic world to start with. But the Schrödinger equation does not support this presumption. The state of superposition never collapses under Schrödinger evolution.
Quoted in "Utopia & Revolution: On the Origins of a Metaphor" by Melvin Jonah Lasky, pg 53. Transaction Publishers, 1976
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