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Article: 25 years ago ...(Classic Humanist)(Quotation)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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The term evolution has tremendous metaphorical extension into social, psychological, and historical studies. We speak of the evolution of a species, a society, a personality. Evolution is development from germ to mature complexity (perhaps the ultimate model in our minds is the human fetus). This "s a powerful, stirring idea, containing in it a sense of progress, movement, development--in a word, hope. At the same time, it carries the teleological danger of ineluctability, of predetermination.
--Lin Poyer, "On Teaching ...
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