Charles Darwin conceived of himself as a scientist in the first place, but he was very much aware of his views' entailments with respect to religion, as his Autobiography broadly shows. A classical author of European civilization, he has become, and has kept being, a disturbing author in Western culture, mainly because of such entailments. Consistently with two previous contributions to the understanding of Darwin's enquiry into the origin of species (in «Biology Forum», 2001; and Darwin’s Metaphysical Noteboks, Pisa, 2001), this book examines, among other things, some passages from writings pertaining to secondary literature, and maintains that the core of Darwin’s «revolution» (as he labelled the outcome of his researches in Natural History) lies in his antimetaphysical, Newtonian outlook —his very work being a disturbing case, from casus, founded on the disturbing category of case, for chance, the latter to be understood like it is put forward in the end pages of The variations of plants and animals under domestication.

Il caso che disturba. Spunti ed appunti sul naturalismo darwiniano

CALABI, MARIO LORENZO
2006-01-01

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Charles Darwin conceived of himself as a scientist in the first place, but he was very much aware of his views' entailments with respect to religion, as his Autobiography broadly shows. A classical author of European civilization, he has become, and has kept being, a disturbing author in Western culture, mainly because of such entailments. Consistently with two previous contributions to the understanding of Darwin's enquiry into the origin of species (in «Biology Forum», 2001; and Darwin’s Metaphysical Noteboks, Pisa, 2001), this book examines, among other things, some passages from writings pertaining to secondary literature, and maintains that the core of Darwin’s «revolution» (as he labelled the outcome of his researches in Natural History) lies in his antimetaphysical, Newtonian outlook —his very work being a disturbing case, from casus, founded on the disturbing category of case, for chance, the latter to be understood like it is put forward in the end pages of The variations of plants and animals under domestication.
2006
Calabi, MARIO LORENZO
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