Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: changes; and even if the cause of the variation is of a psychological nature, we can hardly call it an effort, unless we give a very unusual extension to the meaning of the word. The truth is, it is necessary to dig beneath the effort Innk for a dpppfr cruise. This is especially necessary, we believe, if we wish to get at a cause of regular hereditary variations. We are not going to enter here into the controversies over the transmissibility of acquired characters; still less do we wish to take too definite a side on this question, which is not within our province. But we cannot remain completely indifferent to it. Nowhere is it clearer that philosophers can not to-day content themselves with vague generalities, but must follow the scientists in experimental detail and discuss the results with them. If Spencer had begun by putting to himself the question of the heredita- bility of acquired characters, his evolutionism would no doubt have taken an altogether different form. If (as seems probable to us) a habit contracted by the individual were transmitted to its descendants only in very exceptional cases, all the Spencerian psychology would need re-making, and a large part of Spencer's philosophy would fall to pieces. Let us say, then, how the problem seems to us to present itself, and in what direction an attempt might be made to solve it. After having been affirmed as a dogma, the transmissibility of acquired characters has been no less dogmatically denied, for reasons drawn o priori from the supposed nature of germinal cells. It is well known how Weismann was led, by his hypothesis of the continuity of the germ-plasm, to regard the germinal cells ? ova and spermatozoa ? as almost independent of the somatic cells. Starting from this, it has been claimed, and is still claime...
用生物学知识企图探索人类思维的发展源流,植物进化趋向静止,动物进化趋向运动。前者是本能的道路,后者是智能的道路。人类为了发展智能,而牺牲了本能,和物质结合,走向了创造和改造世界的道路。虽然作者序言称物理化学研究的是原子等死去之物,而人文学科才关注的是活着的...
评分书看完了。简单说几点。 柏格森是我非常喜欢的一位哲学家。目前为止,除了康德,就是柏格森,两人是我相对读的最多作品的哲学家。而且以后遇到柏的作品,还会继续关注。 在我的心目中,柏格森的绵延理论,丝毫不逊色于休谟对因果理念的破坏性。只不过对于“绵延...
评分一直把这本书当做哲学论文来读,但是看到诺奖的评委说的本书的获奖原因的因为作者超凡的想象力,我知道原来这是一文学作品。现代西方哲学家,虽然也提一些本体论认识论,但是“反思”有余,“系统”不足。但这也有好的一面,就是“哲学论著”越来越好啃了,而且直接导致了美学...
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