Open AccessDarwin's Theory of Aggression according to Freud and the Christian Love of Neighbor.
Author(s) -
Joachim Piegsa
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
teologia i moralność
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-4602
pISSN - 1898-2964
DOI - 10.14746/tim.2013.14.2.10
Subject(s) - aggression , manifesto , instinct , perspective (graphical) , evolution theory , darwin (adl) , epistemology , faith , philosophy , darwinism , psychology , psychoanalysis , sociology , social psychology , law , art , computer science , ecology , political science , biology , stars , software engineering , visual arts , computer vision
According to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, aggression is an indispensable factor of development, since the stronger eliminates the weaker. This behavior works on the plane of lower living beings and proceeds through environmentally conditioned selection. In the case of beings driven by instinct, human beings included, such a selection is effected by means of aggression. The theory has moral implications and they are the focus of the present paper. The author discusses the practical implementations of this theory in "the age wolves", as he calls the time of Hitler's and Stalin's dictatorships, and also in the "futuristic manifesto" - the aftermath of the French Revolution, as well as in the framework of Freud's psychoanalysis, where one of the basic thesis claims that renouncement of the sexual drive leads to aggression. According to the author such beliefs are relevant to the contemporary phenomena of robotics, genetic technology and nanotechnology. The author enters into polemics with those beliefs by referring to the basic contents of the Christian faith, mainly to the perspective of the love of neighbor.