Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Species, Adaptation, Morality

A Species can be conceived as an Organism, and its members as constituent sub-Organisms.  The internal organization of a Species can be an adaptive strategy, either an Adaptation-To or an Adaptation-Of its Environment.  Hence, any such strategy is an expression of Technical Reason.  Furthermore, organization is a product of Formal Causality, and, accordingly, re-organization is the product of Transformal Causality, previously introduced here.  So, as has been previously discussed, Transformal Causality and Technical Reason can be Noumenal in Kant's system.  Therefore, his Pure Practical Reason can be a manifestation of an effort of the Species to re-organize its members, interpreted by Kant as a counter to the Selfishness that is characteristic of the adaptive individualizing strategy of the Species in the previous era.  In other words, Kant's Universalist Morality is an interpretation of the Technical Reason of the Species, but the concept of Morality as an Ecological strategy is difficult to recognize so long as it is conceived as Theologically determined.

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