Game Theory and Evolutionary Ethics

Abstract

One of the main evolutionary ethics tasks lies in conventional biological explication of reciprocal altruism and its related adaptive functions of human moral phenomenon. The evolutionary ethics assume a simultaneous development of altruism evolution along with moral senses and intuition by which this strategy was conditioned. For evolutionary ethics argumentation is used a discipline called game theory that by means of mathematic simulations confirms its hypothesis. The relation of these two disciplines is the main reflection object of this thesis. The first part of this thesis gives an introduction to the fundamental evolutionary ethics. Beside the tasks and methods there is an explanation of the meaning of altruism as the fundamental concept of reflected problems. The second part deals with general game theory characteristics including the object, methods and essential concepts. The third chapter deals with relations concerning the game theory application on evolutionary ethics. There is a detailed description and classification of game strategies representing the individual types of persons regarding their cooperation, competition or betrayal propensity, and a research follows that focuses on the success rate of these individual types in the game called prisoner{\crq}s dilemma that represents a mathematic model of conflict situations. The method used in this thesis is synthesis, combination and comparison of observations gained from theoretic analysis of scientific literature