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To: Reactionary

"Will to power" was an idea of Nietzsche. Darwinian natural selection does not have an element of will; in his theory, the fittest genetic elements survive simply by being better adaptations to the environment.


37 posted on 08/29/2004 5:39:58 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov
True enough if one accepts the traditional body/mind duality of the Western tradition.

Looking at the protestors, however, gives me an entirely different idea.

46 posted on 08/29/2004 5:57:01 AM PDT by Reactionary
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