16Jan 2023 by Post

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, Aristotle, atheists, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Intelligent Design, Karl Marx, Law of Correlation, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Poor Law, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Source
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26Jan 2021 by Post

Darwinism and Critical Theory — The Connection

academia, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, Christianity, critical theory, Culture & Ethics, Economics, Evolution, Friedrich Engels, intersectionality, John Milton, Karl Marx, Lucifer, Marxism, Michael Egnor, microaggressions, natural selection, Paradise Lost, power, public square, Saul Alinsky, Walter Bradley Center
"Strange that it may seem, Darwin plays a central role in this drama. Karl Marx himself credited Darwin with much of his basic insight into human history." Source
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22Sep 2020 by Post

Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology

act, anti-intellectualism, Aristotle, Artificial Selection, atheists, biological adaptation, biology, captialism, censorship, Communism, Darwinism, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, feudalism, Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegelian dialectics, Karl Marx, materialism, metaphysics, potency, purpose, synthesis, V.I. Lenin, violence
Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory. Source
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11Aug 2020 by Post

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

Adolf Hitler, atomization, Chicago, civilization, Cliff Mass, Communism, Darwinian evolution, Dawinism, democracy, Edward Feser, Evolution, freedom, Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, Kristallnacht, lockdown, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Nazism, npr, paralysis, Plato, Portland, terror, tyranny
The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Source
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