From Aristotle to Darwin and back again : a journey in final causality, species, and evolution / Étienne Gilson ; translated by John Lyon ; [with a foreword by Christoph Schönborn].
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c2009.Description: xxii, 241 p. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 9781586171698 (pbk.)
- 1586171690 (pbk.)
- D'Aristote à Darwin et retour. English
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Original French ed.: Étienne Gilson, D'Aristote à Darwin et retour... c1971, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, Paris.
Original English ed.: c1984, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-232) and index.
Aristotelian prologue -- The mechanist objection -- Finality and evolution -- Bergsonism and teleology -- The limits of mechanism -- The constants of biophilosophy -- Appendix 1. Observations on the three kingdoms of nature / Linnaeus [in Latin] -- Appendix II. Darwin in search of species.
