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. |