¿Fue Darwin el Newton de la brizna de hierba?

Authors

  • Gustavo Caponi Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n1p53

Abstract

Ratifying Haeckel and contradicting Kant’s negative prophesy, in this paper I try to show that Darwin was, really, the Newton of the blade of grass. Darwin showed how the configurations according to goals of the living beings, could be explained from a naturalistic point of view, without having to postulate the existence of an intentional agent that had arranged or prearranged then. This achievement, nevertheless, was obtained by a way that Kant could not foresee and that Haeckel could not understand: Darwin came there showing that there was more natural science than that Newton, Kant and Haeckel could conceive.

 

Author Biography

Gustavo Caponi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Departemento de Filosofia

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Published

2012-08-27

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