Monday, May 28, 2018

Sociobiology eats the lunch of postmodernism


If we thought of analytical philosophy as the study of nature, rather than the mathematical relations in which the various parts of philosophy fit, and continental philosophy as the study of nurture, rather than how to make whole the complications of analytic philosophers, then it seems to me that the science of of sociobiology would take the place of analytical philosophy, and continental philosophy would study the cultural implications of the biological origin of social behavior.

That is how much I think sociobiology could improve the arcane complications of philosophy. Sociobiology could at least be given an uppermost seat in science and humanities departments in all our colleges and universities, rather than arrogantly condemned or ignored. Sociobiology eats the lunch of postmodernism, which is the presumptuous child of Nietzsche, who I seem to remember writing that if he had it to do over again he would study biology to deepen philosophy.

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