Andre Jute
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
On May 23, 7:07*pm, "Sandy" <leur...@free.fr> wrote:
> Darwinism, born in ideological struggle, has never escaped from an intimate
> reciprocal relationship with worldviews exported from and imported into the
> science. No one challenges the claim that evolutionary theory has had a wide
> effect on social theory. It is a cliché of cultural history that the
> explanation of evolution by natural selection served as an ideological
> justification for laissez-faire capitalism and the colonial domination of
> the lesser breeds without the law
>
> - Richard Lewontin
This clown must be a French philosopher: they can make liquid ****
smell like roses, until you try to extract a singular meaning by
translating their liquid phrases into a logical language like English
or German. Laissez-faire economics have their own justification built
in, Adam Smith's "hidden hand", and Social Darwinism has long been
thoroughly discredited among Anglo-Saxon scholars. In any event,
Darwinism is a description of a random statistical event iterating
itself; no actual scientist with, for instance, dreams of racial
superiority could mistake it for support for his political leanings.
Basically, science and Darwinism are mutually compatible, science and
social darwinism of any kind are fundamentally incompatible.
Andre Jute
Relentless rigour -- Gaius Germanicus
> Darwinism, born in ideological struggle, has never escaped from an intimate
> reciprocal relationship with worldviews exported from and imported into the
> science. No one challenges the claim that evolutionary theory has had a wide
> effect on social theory. It is a cliché of cultural history that the
> explanation of evolution by natural selection served as an ideological
> justification for laissez-faire capitalism and the colonial domination of
> the lesser breeds without the law
>
> - Richard Lewontin
This clown must be a French philosopher: they can make liquid ****
smell like roses, until you try to extract a singular meaning by
translating their liquid phrases into a logical language like English
or German. Laissez-faire economics have their own justification built
in, Adam Smith's "hidden hand", and Social Darwinism has long been
thoroughly discredited among Anglo-Saxon scholars. In any event,
Darwinism is a description of a random statistical event iterating
itself; no actual scientist with, for instance, dreams of racial
superiority could mistake it for support for his political leanings.
Basically, science and Darwinism are mutually compatible, science and
social darwinism of any kind are fundamentally incompatible.
Andre Jute
Relentless rigour -- Gaius Germanicus