If you look back through the ages, there is some moral evolution going on.
And the process of fathoming Washington's moral evolution is not a simple one.
Like the Forster, it was a spiritual adventure story, written with rhapsodic excitement, engulfing its mid-Victorian characters in huge shifts of time, culture, place and authorial tone, while also setting them on a course of moral evolution.
And then comes moral evolution, which we're not frightfully far along I think with people.
Here is an instructive video about the state of moral evolution today.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) had confiscated his collection of 2,000 rare birds' eggs and he had been convicted six times and fined thousands of pounds.The shift in humanity's approach to the natural world is in part the result of a long, slow evolution in moral attitudes that started long before Mr Watson's boyhood.
This first novel invents three ordinary Germans -- each representing a different generation and social class -- and traces the evolution in their moral awareness from the delusion of the Nazi years to the denial of guilt after World War II to the decades of national soul-searching that followed.
If moral truths or facts were contingent on evolution in this way (as they would be, to give another example, if moral facts were identified with facts about which moral values would favor diversity in the human gene pool, Wilson 1978, p. 205), they could not be objective in the strict way demanded by Shafer-Landau.
As noted earlier, many anti-evolutionists believe that the materialistic bias of science and the theory of evolution in particular contribute to moral decline (see also Bergman 1999a, 2001; Hall 2005).
Others preached that the church should not interfere in politics except on "moral issues," such as the blue laws, the prohibition of alcohol, and the teaching of evolution in the schools.
