Friday, December 18, 2015

Species-Being, Economics, Ecology

The concept of Species-Being can be understood as sublating the two dominant, and antithetical, Philosophical concepts of the centuries preceding the nineteenth--the Cartesian Cogito and Newtonian Physics.  For, in Species-Being, individual thought is supplanted by collective action, and Physics, by Biology.  However, Marx's further judgment, inspired by the French Revolution, that Economics likewise sublates Epistemology and Metaphysics as the fundamental Philosophical enterprise, is short-sighted.  For, as Darwin brings to attention, Nature is the more comprehensive context for any species.  Accordingly, a systematic derivation of Economics presupposes the establishment of Ecological principles, as does, therefore, Socialism, as well as Capitalism.

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