Review and Critique on Herbert Spencer’s theory of Ethical
Evolutionism according to Islam Cover Image

PREGLED I KRITIKA HERBERT SPENCEROVE TEORIJE ETIČKOG EVOLUCIONIZMA PO ISLAMU
Review and Critique on Herbert Spencer’s theory of Ethical Evolutionism according to Islam

Author(s): Ali Asgariyazdi
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, History and theory of sociology, Social Theory
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: ethical evolutionism; Herbert Spencer; originality of benefit; origin of creating human; Charles Darwin;

Summary/Abstract: Evolutionism thinkers in the discussion of the origin of creating humans believe that human societies in the context of time will be progressive and developed. Herbert Spencer, by the extension of evolutionary theory in biology to areas of society and ethics, believed in gradual progress of life from simple forms to complex forms. He has considered the distinction between developed and semi-developed behavior as the basis for the distinction between absolute ethic and relative ethic and accepted the benefit in describing the good and bad ethic, and considered joy and benefits the goal of ethic. Quranic verses and hadiths do not accept the evolution of humans and their division from other creatures. In addition, the hypothesis of evolution even in biology has remained at the level of hypothesis and is not proven, and critics and opponents of thinkers of biology look at it with skepticism and challenges. As a result, according to the fact that this theory is not proven in the field of biology cannot validate its generalization in the field of ethics and community. In particular, such an extension requires relativeness of ethic that is underlying numerous problems.

  • Issue Year: XX/2017
  • Issue No: 76/77
  • Page Range: 209-222
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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