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The Universal Kinship

by J. Howard Moore

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The Ethical Kinship

Human Nature a Product of the Jungle

Egoism and Altruism

The Ethics of the Savage

The Ethics of the Ancient

Modern Ethics

The Ethics of Human Beings Toward Non-human Beings

The Origin of Provincialism

Universal Ethics

The Psychology of Altruism

Anthropocentric Ethics

Ethical Implications of Evolution

Conclusion

One of the wisest things ever said by one of the profoundest philosophers of all time was the warning to the seeker after truth to beware of the influence of the ‘idols (or illusions) of the tribe’ by which he meant that body of traditional prejudices which every sect, family, nation, and neighbourhood has clinging to it, and in the midst of which and at the mercy of which every human being grows up.

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