Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Evolutionist Revolution and Economics

Copernicus' discovery that the Earth spins on its axis with respect to which the Sun is stationary, inspires in Kant what he calls a Copernican Revolution in Epistemology, according to which Cognition is essentially in motion, and, hence, is constituted by the adaptation of external data to the Form of Time, i. e. an Object of Cognition is temporally constructed.  Nevertheless, just as the Sun remains commonly conceived to rise and set, Cognition is still commonly conceived to correspond directly to an independent Object.  Similarly, one of the consequences of an Evolutionist concept of Human History, previously discussed, is what might be called an Evolutionist Revolution in Psychology.  This Revolution inverts the deeply ingrained concept of the relation between Action and Consumption, according to which, Human exertion is a means to eating and drinking, and the value of the Human thumb is as a means to securing food and water.  Instead, according to the inversion, biological replenishment is a means to behavior the fundamental principle of which is further increases in Human functional versatility, to the extent of unprecedented terrestrial adaptation, and, perhaps, beyond.  Nevertheless, despite the evidence grounding an Evolutionist Revolution, Economics remains commonly conceived as a means to Survival, corporeal or incorporeal.

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