From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Tolver Preston
Date:
22 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 250
Summary:
Discusses ethics of risking one’s life to save another.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses ethics of risking one’s life to save another.
Thanks for CD’s comments on his paper ["On a point relating to brain dynamics", Nature 22 (1880): 29–30].
Contends that self-interest as a motive for conduct is more salutary than is generally thought, and should be considered in the evolution of morality.