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Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it?
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Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it?
The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks.
Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought.
What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes.
Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures.