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Philosophy Structures
Structure One:
In The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, page 66, Charles Darwin argues that organisms which have favorable traits are more likely to reproduce than members of the population with less favorable traits.
Reasons:
"Seeing that individual differences of the same kind perpetually recur, this can hardly be considered as an unwarrantable assumption" (Darwin 66).
"The ordinary belief that the amount of possible variation is a strictly limited quantity is likewise a simple assumption" (Darwin 66).
"As we see that those variations which, under domestication appear at any particular period of life, tend to reappear in the offspring at the same period; - for instance, in the shape, size, and flavor of the seeds of the many varieties of our culinary and agricultural plants…so in a state of nature, natural selection will be enabled to act on and modify organic beings at any age, by the accumulation of variations profitable at that age, and by their inheritance at a corresponding age" (Darwin 67).
I think Darwin's
Objections:
The only potential objections to Darwin's logic would be if a person believed in a religious viewpoint on adaptation. Darwin does not take into account the belief in an all-powerful, omniscient deity who controls the alteration and diversification of a species.
Structure Two:
In Kant, Immanuel Kant considers the following argument:
According to the article "What is Enlightenment?" human beings are not enlightened (Kant 1). They do not want to make decisions for themselves without someone else's input and therefore do not have to work at making the right choice for…
Works Cited
Darwin, Charles. "Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest." The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection. Cambridge: Cambridge Library Collection. 62-105. Print.
Kant, Immanuel. "What is Enlightenment?" 1784. 1-8. Print.
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