De Lacan a Darwin

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Tendo em vista a equiparação, no segundo semestre de 1999, da teoria da evolução de Darwin ao texto bíblico do Gênese nos currículos escolares de um estado norteamericano, o artigo discute o fortalecimento (ainda que setorial) do ‘criacionismo’, antiga concepção que apresenta a origem do mundo e do homem como resultado de um ato de criação divina. Com este objetivo, procedeuse, num primeiro mom...

Lacan with

In 1953 Donald Winnicott was appointed to a committee by the then president of the IPA Heinz Hartman, to investigate the events surrounding and the resignations of various members of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the founding of the Société Française de Psychoanalyse. Lacan up to the moment of his resignation from the Paris Society, had been its President and was one of those that the co...

Latino Studies With Lacan

Empathy’s purity, sympathy’s complexities; De Waal, Darwin and Adam Smith

Frans de Waal's view that empathy is at the basis of morality directly seems to build on Darwin, who considered sympathy as the crucial instinct. Yet when we look closer, their understanding of the central social instinct differs considerably. De Waal sees our deeply ingrained tendency to sympathize (or rather: empathize) with others as the good side of our morally dualistic nature. For Darwin,...

Darwin

The idea of biological evolution has a complex history throughout science and society. In Darwin, Darwin College at Cambridge University brings together nine scholars from diverse fields to discuss the legacy of the college namesake. This series of highly accessible lectures, intended for a popular audience, presents Darwin’s theory as both a vital part of our culture and an ongoing global deba...