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| ISBN: | 9789401795517
9401795517
9789401795500
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 20, 2014).
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| Summary: | This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems. It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world's dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere six thousand of the two hundred thousand years of modern human existence? What explains the many and varied moral systems across the globe today? How can we account for the significant change in moral values in one place in less than 100 years' time? Using examples from classical civilizations, the book demonstrates how increasi.
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| Other form: | Print version: Friesen, Bruce K. Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights. Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, ©2014 9789401795500
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