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Ideas for 'Intensional Logic', 'Meinong on Complexes and Assumptions' and 'On the Nature of the Universe'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

5730	Our bodies weren't created to be used; on the contrary, their creation makes a use possible [Lucretius]
	Full Idea: Nothing in our bodies was born in order that we might be able to use it, but the thing born creates the use.
	From: Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], IV.834)
	A reaction: This remark (strongly opposed to Aristotle's view of human function and nature) raises the obvious question of why the body is so very useful for staying alive. Most of its uses are not random. Lucretius would abandon this view if he read Darwin.