Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:22:46 EDT
Subject: Re: Fw: [HAB:] Communicative Action in everyday contexts - the family


 
In a message dated 8/30/2004 1:37:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
sue-AT-mcphersons.freeserve.co.uk writes:

Are you  talking about Darwin's theory - about animals - or about
> social  darwinism which is Herbert Spencer's, taking the
> biological and  claiming it's the same in human society. No, I
> think people have it  wrong when they take this theory as truth,
> and the only way to  live.  And besides that, they are selfish in
> that they don't  consider the wider consequences - to the
> environment - actually, the  world.
> 
> Darwin's theory wasn't meant to be applied in the  manner you
> suggest.  It's probably fairly "natural" to ascribe to  it, but we
> aren't simply animals. And even though practicing it may  resolve
> problems of racism and sexism, it doesn't work with  classism,
> and I don't know how it works on ageism.  Rather than  see
> following Darwin's theory as a competence, I think it could  be
> seen as a lack.



Natural selection is not at all conscious; I do not think we are conscious  
of it at all, but this is what is happening and primarily because humans  are 
unaware of this natural process. All living things are affected by  natural 
selection.  Darwin's theory was meant to be applied to humans, read  The Descent 
of Man. Practicing 'it' implies a conscious awareness; the  competency would 
be knowledge and understanding of it because it is always  already a natural 
fact.  It is hardly possible that the West's near zero  population growth is due 
to knowledgeable reduction of copulation,  reproduction, and poorer rearing 
habits?
 
Fred Welfare


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