Monday, December 10, 2018

Copernican Revolution and Evolutionist Revolution

For reasons that have previously been discussed, the inversion of the traditional priority of Adaptation To and Adaptation Of can be characterized as an Evolutionist Revolution.  But, it can also be appreciated as a descendant of Kant's Copernican Revolution.  For, the latter signifies an inversion of the Epistemological relation between Subject and Object, i. e. from the traditional concept of Knowledge as an adaptation of Mind to World, to that of it as an adaptation of a manifold to Mental Categories.  Furthermore, Kant's  subsequent inversion of the traditional priority of Theory over Practice, entails the inversion of the priority of a mere representation of the World, over a concrete modification of it, though Kant himself seems not to recognize that extension of his concept of Copernican Revolution.  Accordingly, Evolutionism can be recognized as a continuation of a Modern tradition of the radicalization of the concept of Human that includes the innovations of Copernicus and Kant.

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