Open AccessEl darwinismo y la cuestión del sentido
Author(s) -
Carlos Castrodeza
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
asclepio
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.146
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1988-3102
pISSN - 0210-4466
DOI - 10.3989/asclepio.2009.v61.i2.289
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , happiness , existentialism , darwinism , epistemology , identity (music) , perspective (graphical) , dimension (graph theory) , philosophy , psychology , psychoanalysis , sociology , social psychology , aesthetics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , pure mathematics
The problem of the meaning of life is herewith contemplated from a Darwinian perspective. It is argued how factors such as existential depression, the concern about the meaning of "meaning," the problem of evil, death as the end of our personal identity, happiness as an unachievable goal, etc. may well have an adaptive dimension "controlled" neither by ourselves nor obscure third parties (conspiracy theories) but "simply" by our genes (replicators in general) so that little if anything is to be done to find a radical remedy for the human condition.