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Full Idea
Human exceptionalism has repeatedly plagued biology, and has darkened the history of human thought everywhere.
Gist of Idea
Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking
Source
Anil Seth (Being You [2021], I.2)
Book Ref
Seth,Anil: 'Being You: new science of consciousness' [Faber 2022], p.46
A Reaction
I increasingly agree with this, as much in philosophy as in biology. We really need to get used to our place in evolution.
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| 6924 | Plotinus was ashamed to have a body [Feuerbach] |
| 1568 | Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life [Nietzsche, by Roochnik] |
| 7147 | Values are innate and inherited [Nietzsche] |
| 7190 | Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth [Nietzsche] |
| 18297 | We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche] |
| 22660 | Evolution suggests prevailing or survival as a new criterion of right and wrong [James] |
| 23431 | Human defects are just like plant or animal defects [Foot] |
| 22187 | Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha] |
| 23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |