Saturday, December 3, 2016

Political Philosophy, Evolution, Extraterrestriality

That a Polity consists in a structured multiplicity transcends circumstances, since it follows from the concept of a Society as an Organism.  But what that structure might be is a function of Historical and Geographical conditions.  Now, on the premise that the Telos of the Human Species is permanent harmonious integration into the ecosystem of the Earth, the political system that that would entail would be definable by a Political Philosophy as an Ideal that is also concrete.  However, that premise is dubitable for a least two reasons.  First, as is implicit in Darwinism, and is explicitly proposed by Nietzsche, the Telos of Humankind might be an entity or species that surpasses it in some respect.  Second, an extraterrestrial continuation of Humankind is no longer implausible.  So, in each of these cases, political organization is a means to a subsequent development, and not an Ideal, which entails stable finality.

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