Thomas Nagel on “Darwinian Imperialism”, Naturalism and Mind (Part Two)
Thomas Nagel fights “Darwinist imperialism” and Naturalism
“The total world-view of modern man [has] let itself be determined by the positive sciences [which has resulted in] an indifferent turning-away from the questions which are decisive for a genuine humanity.”
— Edmund Husserl (see source here)
Skip the following square-bracketed introduction if you’ve already read my ‘Thomas Nagel as Philosopher-Priest and New Mysterian (Part One)’.
[This essay was written quite some time ago. The style is somewhat rhetorical, literary and psychologistic. That said, I still agree with much of its philosophical content. However, if I were to write it today, the style would be a little different. Indeed most analytic philosophers would probably regard this essay as one long ad hominem against the American philosopher Thomas Nagel (1937-). Sure; there is an element of the ad hominem in the following. Yet hopefully it will be shown that there’s more to the essay than that.
[In fact I chose to write in a rhetorical style partly in response to the clear and prevalent rhetoric and “psychologising” I found…
