King Lear in the upper palaeolithic: searching for ethical principles in prehistory.
Monash bioethics review April 24, 2025 Charles Foster 1 citation
Ethics are concerned with maximising the thriving of individuals and societies. One cannot maximise the thriving of a person unless one has some idea about what sort of creature that person is. Ethics follow ontology. Many answers have been suggested to the question 'What is a human?' and the less fundamental question 'What are the defining attributes of a human'? Many of those answers are...