Autor: Gustavo Caponi

Abstract:

Ratifying Haeckel and contradicting Kant’s negative prophesy, in this paper I try to show that Darwin was, really, the Newton of the blade of grass. Darwin showed how the configurations according to goals of the living beings, could be explained from a naturalistic point of view, without having to postulate the existence of an intentional agent that had arranged or prearranged then. This achievement, nevertheless, was obtained by a way that Kant could not foresee and that Haeckel could not understand: Darwin came there showing that there was more natural science than that Newton, Kant and Haeckel could conceive.

ISSN: 1414-4217

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n1p53

Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2012v16n1p53/22771

Palavras-Chave: Darwin, C.; ,Haeckel, E.;, Kant, I.;, Newton,