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Darwin and the question of form: the Greek connection.(Charles Darwin)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20070901
Author:Weiss, Raymond L.

DARWIN WAS NOT A PHILOSOPHER. He can be fairly called a "philosophical naturalist," an expression that he favors when referring to the most thoughtful of his colleagues. (1) But insofar as his thought is grounded in the philosophic tradition, Darwin deals with the permanent problems of philosophy. His thought in fact has a certain Greek lineage, despite the obvious and important differences from the Greeks.

But were not the problems that preoccupied Darwin characteristically modern, dependent upon an attitude fostered by the new science along with fossil discoveries, advances ...

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