The Arrogance of Humanism by David W. Ehrenfeld

Author:David W. Ehrenfeld
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Humanisme (levensbeschouwing), Fortschrittsglaube, Kritik, Wetenschapsfilosofie, Humanism, Rationalisme, Humanismus
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-12-11T23:00:00+00:00

Moreover, because social and cultural “evolution” was able to bypass the much slower biological-genetic evolution (once the neencephalon had evolved), the tempo of the transition from emotion to reason was free to become rapid and accelerating. As might be expected, there is conflict between the new and old systems of our behavior, which have had little time to become adjusted to one another. Seidenberg quotes from the biologist Julian Huxley, who believed that laughter, which is unique to humans, is the normal and indispensable method of providing release and at least temporary resolution of this internal conflict. But the conflict between “instinct” and reason, according to Seidenberg, is not an equal one:

Chance is plainly present in both procedures, but it is lessened as systematic and deliberate action supplants the random movements of a haphazard procedure co-ordinated only by virtue of its objective… intelligence, clearly, is not only the superior faculty because of its conscious attack upon the problem, it also introduces a wholly new and different technique with which to achieve its purpose.

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