have the feeling that some scientists already believed what he articulated
yes, definitely, most of the ideas he put together had been around since the Greek philosophers/natural scientists
Moreover, there are a lot of people who still don't believe him.
in his ideas, i think you mean. ;)
I certainly haven't studied him [and 20th century history] enough to say yes for certain his ideas, and the idea of Darwin, have majorly influenced the 20th century. Just an intuition. I would also add Einstein to that list of major influences on the 20th century... maybe?
I don't look at the race riots and say "natural selection!" so much as "Russian Revolution again -- the class struggle!"
but class struggle is as old as civilization.. of which the Russian Revolution was only one manifestation. But again, I don't know enough to say anything definitive about it's influence, one way or the other. :)
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yes, definitely, most of the ideas he put together had been around since the Greek philosophers/natural scientists
Moreover, there are a lot of people who still don't believe him.
in his ideas, i think you mean. ;)
I certainly haven't studied him [and 20th century history] enough to say yes for certain his ideas, and the idea of Darwin, have majorly influenced the 20th century. Just an intuition. I would also add Einstein to that list of major influences on the 20th century... maybe?
I don't look at the race riots and say "natural selection!" so much as "Russian Revolution again -- the class struggle!"
but class struggle is as old as civilization.. of which the Russian Revolution was only one manifestation. But again, I don't know enough to say anything definitive about it's influence, one way or the other. :)
thanks for some ideas to ponder, though.