Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. On a Possible Foundation of Ethics Sergio De Risio, Chiara Cuomo -- 2. In Darwin's Wake, Where Did I Go? Daniel C. Dennett -- 3. Post-Kantian Problems of an Ethics of the Good Life and the Foundations of Discourse Ethics Karl-Otto Apel -- 1. The Choice of My Topic Justified -- 2. Ethics of the Good Life and other Problems of Ethics after Kant's Innovation of Universalistic Ethics -- 3. The Transcendental-pragmatic Foundation of Dialogical or Discourse Ethics -- 4. Discourse Ethics and the Concern of an Ethics of Self-Realization -- 4. Emotion, Metaphor and the Evolution of the Mind Arnold H. Modell -- 5. Ethos in Action Franco F. Orsucci -- 1. Evolution -- 2. Local Rules -- 3. Human Rights -- 4. Language and Consciousness -- 5. Time and Subject for Action -- 6. Doublings -- 7. Intention and Narration -- 8. The Ethical Thing -- Bibliography -- Index.