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CREATIVE EVOLUTION AND THE CREATION OF MAN
Author(s) -
Colebrook Claire
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2010.00024.x
Subject(s) - darwin (adl) , organism , relation (database) , epistemology , reflexivity , human life , sociology , philosophy , biology , computer science , social science , genetics , humanity , theology , software engineering , database
This paper argues that Darwin's theory of evolution offers (at least) two modes of understanding the relation between life and human knowledge. On the one hand, Darwin can be included within a general turn to “life,” in which human self‐knowledge is part of a general unfolding of increasing awareness and anthropological reflexivity; life creates an organism, man, capable of discerning the logic of organic existence. On the other hand, Darwin offers the possibility of understanding life beyond the self‐maintenance of organism and, therefore, beyond the rational of life's putative striving.