Final draft maybe This will go on the evolutionary ethics page it will go after the section called Further reading Evolutionary ethics struggles as a system of normative ethics which asks the question what should I do It struggles due to the logical fallacy of turning a statement about what is into one about what we ought to do see naturalistic fallacy As a meta ethical theory one that tells us the nature of moral judgments evolutionary ethics can be used as a decent descriptor on why we have certain views on right and wrong As a meta ethical claim it does not tell us what is right and wrong but rather that the origin of our ethical practices come from our evolutionary history This tends to lead to a less black and white view on ethical beliefs and leaves much more room for gray areas Many philosophers who support this view of evolutionary meta ethics use it to undermine Aristotelian teleology a belief that we can t reduce things to the parts that compose them but the end they are trying to achieve is very important At times evolutionary ethics is used to undermine moral realism a view that morals are objectively true and do not rely upon a person s thoughts or attitudes However other philosophers still use evolution to champion moral realism Often they will argue that there is a set of moral truths and that our behavior naturally tend towards moral truths because of evolution More often however it is used to support moral subjectivism This is a belief that moral truths are subjective and often times based on cultural norms thoughts and attitudes towards a subject matter rather than a set of mind independent truths Evolutionary ethics assumes we have a set of basic underlying morals such as not killing another person This stems from the evolutionary need to allow the species to survive Then some of the more graininess of ethics comes from the differences in cultural upbringings and backgrounds and thus the finer points of ethics would be considered subjective 8 06 24 April 2015 UTC