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What does biologism mean?

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Noun
  1. The use or emphasis of biological principles or methods in explaining human, especially social, behavior. [from 20th c.]
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Paradoxically, the solution offered is predicated on biology, and so undermines a pure form of either constructivism or biologism.
We can have a ruthlessly self-consistent system, like Hitler's biologism or Stalin's Marxism, but it will not be human.
We can complicate, for instance, the centrality of biopolitical reproductive biologism by expanding the terrain of who reproduces and what is reproduced.
This biologism included the search for natural explanations in ethics, psychology, aesthetics, and other traditional areas of philosophical inquiry.
At present, there is a resurgence of biologism in both psychology and popular culture.
This position entails some fundamental difficulties in Wiredu's attempt to give his biologism a theoretical defense.

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