Species & Monster: Variations on Darwin
The essay investigates the Darwinian concept of species from The Origin of Species and some of its scientific and philosophical versions. The main objective is to demonstrate the essentially problematic character of the concept, whose status oscillates logically between category and image, and vital...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28290 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/fmc/article/view/28290 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Espécie Monstruosidade Adaptação Simbiose Imaginação species monstrosity adaptation symbiosis imagination |
| Sumario: | The essay investigates the Darwinian concept of species from The Origin of Species and some of its scientific and philosophical versions. The main objective is to demonstrate the essentially problematic character of the concept, whose status oscillates logically between category and image, and vitally between type and aberration. It is argued, therefore, that the Darwinian theory of the evolution of life includes a teratology, according to which the origin of species is conceived as the potential of differentiation of the living forms, being monstrosity its most original character. Finally, it concludes with the metaphysical hypothesis, inspired by neoevolutionism, and applied retroactively to the Darwinian theory, that natural species, as life forms, are the work of the metabolic and sympoietic imagination of living beings. |
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