Commonsense Darwinism

摘要

Lemos uses Aristotle's ergon argument about the function of an item, that good knives cut, that good hearts pump blood, and that the characteristic feature of humanity is our rationality, which, if exercised well, will lead to a good life or eudaimonia. If eudaimonia is our telos (as an adult form for a species is the telos of an embryo) and this is the anchor for a moral theory, and if Darwin's theory does not need to appeal to teleology in the least, then one wonders how Aristotle and Darwin are to be squared away with each other.