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  • 01.27.23

Tag: Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series)

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Neil Thomas
January 29, 2022, 7:28 AM

Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative

People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion.

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Neil Thomas
January 28, 2022, 11:13 AM

For Darwin, Timing Was Everything

Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it?

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Neil Thomas
January 27, 2022, 12:07 PM

The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection

The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks.

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Neil Thomas
January 26, 2022, 6:42 AM

The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism

What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes.

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Neil Thomas
January 25, 2022, 4:18 PM

Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus

Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought.

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