Evolutionary ethics

The basic task of evolutionary ethics is the explanation of reciprocal altruism. It derives its basic principles from the discipline which is called game theory. In the first part of my thesis I deal with the basic forms of altruism, which is described by evolutionary ethics. In the second part I focus on game theory and the ways it explains the principles of evolutionary ethics. In the last section I am concerned with the question of free will which is in fact eliminated by evolutionary ethics. The aim of my thesis is to describe the basic concepts of evolutionary ethics and to consider the question whether it is possible that all our moral standards of behavior are given only biologically