Charles Darwin y el “desencantamiento” weberiano
- 1 Universidad del País Vasco, España
ISSN: 1130-0507, 1989-4651
Year of publication: 2017
Issue: 71
Pages: 95-106
Type: Article
More publications in: Daimon: revista internacional de filosofía
Abstract
The aim of this article is to reveal the permanent interrelation between two Darwinian metaphors like the “entangled bank” in On the Origin of Species, and the one concerning the “color-blindness” mentioned in Autobiography, in order to demonstrate the doubtful consistency of interpretations which detect a latent secular “enchantment” in the Theory of Evolution, and reject a “disenchantment”, in weberian terms (Entzauberung).
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