In this talk we move to Continental Philosophy and examine its origins and presuppositions, as well as the contrast to analytical philosophy. From Aquinas to Kant, we see the breakdown of philosophy from nominalism to empiricism, leading to the dialectics in Hegel’s Absolute Idealism. In the second hour, we move to Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger.
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One of the problems with Darwin’s work is the way it has been interpreted. I believe what he said was that it was not the strongest or the most intelligent creatures that emerged through evolution, but the most adaptable. This has been conveniently perverted: “the survival of the fittest” = “the survival of the most dominant”; and the unanswered question is always “fit” for what?, or “most adaptable” to what? In terms of the increasingly dystopian and, I believe, Luciferian world we live in, just about the worst thing would be to be “adaptable” to it, which would mean succumbing to it. I think that Darwin has been misused. I don’t think that he was a bad or evil man; in fact, if one reads “The Voyage of the Beagle” and sees how upset he was to witness the conditions of African slaves in South America, it’s patently clear that he could be kind and sensitive. It is what has been done with his work that has caused damage. Social Darwinism is an horrendous socio-political philosophy that has given philosophical justification to all sorts of barbarity. Personally, I believe that humans are lost without God.
As a follow up comment, Jay is correct about Far-Eastern philosophy. It is ultimately about the elimination of all difference and identity. The citta, the Buddhist “soul” has no individuality at all; notwithstanding that Theravada in particular has a good system of ethics, and emphasis on good personal behaviour.