[lbo-talk] the anatomy of man is the key to the anatomy of the ape

[Chris Doss]

You say this a lot, but I've never seen you make an argument that 'internal relations, final causation and self-determination and the anthropological idea of human being as the being able to develop the rational self-consciousness (an idea itself requiring the ontological ideas for its self-consistent elaboration) able to know the "good" and actualize it in a truly "good" community"' actually exist. You just assume they do, because you want them to, and work backward to a metaphysics that will justify them. God, Moral Argument for the Existence of.
 

----- Original Message ----
From: Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com>

The claim involves ontological and anthropological premises inconsistent with Darwinian biology.  The latter is "materialist" in the sense dominant since Newton, i.e. in the sense that excludes any logical space for the ontological ideas of internal relations, final causation and self-determination and for the anthropological idea of human being as the being able to develop the rational self-consciousness (an idea itself requiring the ontological ideas for its self-consistent elaboration) able to know the "good" and actualize it in a truly "good" community.