Abstract
This essay focuses on determining moral leadership, as theoretically debated from an evolutionary point of view in an attempt to reflect on how this kind of moral leadership can contribute, among others, in dealing with issues such as gender, race, poverty and sexual orientation. Although important, not one of the latter issues will be discussed. It is not the primary focus of the essay. But because we are aware of the extent of the challenges regarding these issues, they were specifically identified as examples for applying the moral guidelines developed and determined in this essay. This essay mainly argues that morality and moral leadership require analytical and critical evolutionary thinking and reflection that could contribute to making the world a more just and fair place in which to live. Moral leaders are created when people are constantly striving in an ongoing process of reasoning to become more humane, thereby allowing every person to flourish and to reach their full potential through biologically determined and justice-based moral reflection and action.
Highlights
Many people around the world are actively engaged in a struggle for a better society – politically, economically, ethnically, sexually and morally, to name but a few aspects
This essay focuses on determining moral leadership, as theoretically debated from an evolutionary point of view in an attempt to reflect on how this kind of moral leadership can contribute in dealing with issues such as gender, race, poverty and sexual orientation
The moral codes or norms according to which we evaluate particular actions as either morally good or morally bad are products of cultural, not biological, evolution
Summary
Many people around the world are actively engaged in a struggle for a better society – politically, economically, ethnically, sexually and morally, to name but a few aspects. Evolutionary biology has to be taken seriously, because it can help us truly to understand the human condition and, in relation to this essay, to gain insight into the phenomenon of the nature and significance of moral choices, actions and leadership.
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