Re: social complexity

Dear Pedro,

I have been reading the last contributions to the list and I am really
fascinated by the ideas biologists apply so social matters, even if they are
(mostly) analogies.
Kant distinguishes (in the introduction to his lectures on An Anthropology
under a pragmatical point of view) between what nature has made of us (and
still is making) and what we do ourselves of us. The last he calls an
anthropology under a pragmatical point of view (the first kind is called:
under a _physiololgical_ point of view).
I think this two viewpoints are somehow related to what Koichiro calls the
present tense and the present progressive tense, or, in other terminology,
an objective and a subjective view.
Biologists look at human beings under an objective point of view (humans and
what they do as a product of evolution or, as Kant would say, of nature).
But what nature has produced is a being that is capable of produce himself
by himself. So to apply the evolutionary view means at the same time (!) to
take both points of view withoug reducing the one to the other (Biologism or
Humanism)
With kind regards
Rafael

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Received on Wed Nov 25 10:35:31 1998