...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. Charles Darwin* It is simply unimaginable that fish would come to the rescue of an unlucky pond mate...

...unique to human animals: The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with wellmarked...conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal...

...unique characteristic; rather, it was a natural development for an intelligent social animal. Indeed, "any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." 10 It would probably be a different moral sense, but nonetheless a moral sense. Darwin did not mean...

...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" (1936b, 471-72). The social instincts of the psychopath are...

...animals can throw light on one of the highest psychical faculties of man. The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable - namely, that...any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,51 would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers...

...seems, is prepared to endorse a counterfactual very like that expressed by Darwin in The Descent of Man, "that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." 14 If one takes Darwin's 'social instincts' to be among the 'natural virtues', then this is the view...

...126, 132, 148, 158, 169, 186. Wilson even relies specifically on Darwin's words in Descent of Man: "Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers become as well-developed, or nearly as well-developed, as in man" (id. at 130-31). 18. Ibid. 19. Wills,...

...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1982 [1871], pp. 71-2) Thomas Huxley, in his famous lecture, Evolution...

...well-marked social instincts. the parental and hlial affections being here included. would inevitably acquite a moral sense or conscience. as soon as its intellectual...developed. or nearly as well developed. as in man" (Darwin 1981 [1871] .pp 71-72l. The first to integrate Darwin's ideas with those of philosophy. anthropology....

...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". The origin of the moral sense is thus found in the social...