This book develops a basic hipótesis: Like all known species of living beings, our awn, Homo sapiens, has implicitly the priority vital goal of surviving and the imperative duty to try to survive, other ends and goals notwithstanding. Base don this idea, and the idea of altruism/love as a working took, the author relieves that a universal code of ethics can be worked out as follows: is Good/Better, when done altruistically, that which is Good/Better for the survival of the species. These concepts, once contrasted and verified, resolve some of the pending questions in the history of evolution. They sustain a base or foundation for the universal ethics that our Humanity, and each one of its groups and indivduals, need with the upmost urgency.
This book develops a basic hipótesis: Like all known species of living beings, our awn, Homo sapiens, has implicitly the priority vital goal of surviving and the imperative duty to try to survive, other ends and goals notwithstanding. Base don this idea, and the idea of altruism/love as a working took, the author relieves that a universal code of ethics can be worked out as follows: is Good/Better, when done altruistically, that which is Good/Better for the survival of the species. These concepts, once contrasted and verified, resolve some of the pending questions in the history of evolution. They sustain a base or foundation for the universal ethics that our Humanity, and each one of its groups and indivduals, need with the upmost urgency.