This is an interesting historical note, but I am having a hard time seeing why it is a rationality quote. Perhaps as a record of people acting irrationally? Would you mind explaining a bit?
There a public misconception about Darwin having been primarily opposed for advocating evolution when that wasn’t his biggest problem.
Today there are some people who think of themselves as Darwinists but who follow teleological notions of evolution and say things like: “The goal of life is to procreate.”
The controversial thing that Darwin said was that there’s no goal.
This is an interesting historical note, but I am having a hard time seeing why it is a rationality quote. Perhaps as a record of people acting irrationally? Would you mind explaining a bit?
There a public misconception about Darwin having been primarily opposed for advocating evolution when that wasn’t his biggest problem.
Today there are some people who think of themselves as Darwinists but who follow teleological notions of evolution and say things like: “The goal of life is to procreate.”
The controversial thing that Darwin said was that there’s no goal.