Defining Darwin: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology by Michael Ruse
Author:Michael Ruse [Ruse, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781591027256
It is plain that Prof. Huxley thinks that it has an important bearing on this question, but I find it extremely hard to see why he does so. Perhaps I can best bring out the difficulty that I feel in the following way. Take the things which Prof. Huxley considers to be intrinsically good, and imagine him to be confronted with an opponent who doubted or denied of any of them that it was intrinsically good. How precisely would he refute his opponent and support his own opinion by appealing to the facts and laws of evolution? Unless the notion of value is surreptitiously imported into the definition of `evolution,' knowledge of the facts and laws of evolution is simply knowledge of the de facto nature and order of sequence of successive phases in various lines of development.3 i
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