La evolución biológica como fundamento de la ética

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between ethical naturalism and biological evolution. The first section of the article describes biological evolution and its relation with ethical naturalism, which takes into account, as a fundamental premise, the fact that human beings have evolved by means of natural selection. Moreover, the implications of a naturalist metaethics based on biological evolution are analized. These implications of an evolutionary metaethics give rise to the debate concerning the realist and antirealist postures with regard to the existence of moral properties. Finally, a realist metaethics based on biological evolution is endorsed, which remains coherent with ethical naturalism.