KK-Forum,
Om Darwin til vår alles (inkl. lokale sosiobiologers) oppbyggelse:
To the extent, then, that the British empiricists contributed to the
irrationalism of the modern era, Charles Darwin served them with a kind of
naturalistic underpinning of their ideology. For how highly ideological a
thinker Darwin himself was, see his The Descent of Man of 1871, with great
thoughts like: "Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than
woman, and has more inventive genius." (p. 316), or: "There should be open
competition for all men; and the most able should not be prevented by laws
or customs from succeeding best and rearing the largest number of
offspring." (p. 403, among more appalling stuff of this kind). One of my
favorites is the following: "There is apparently much truth in the belief
that the wonderful progress of the United States, as well as the character
of the people, are the result of natural selection; "(p. 179).
Fra http://mitpress.mit.edu/chomskydisc/koster.html
Knut Rognes
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