Critiques of Darwinism from Hans Jonas’s Philosophy of Life
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The “organism” is the object of biological research, which since the seventeenth century, for the most part, has sought to resolve the essence of life in terms of merely mechanical interactions. However, there are perspectives that allow us to understand this concept from the ontological perspective, delving into its teleological nature, while considering an internal horizon of subjectivity. In the work The Life Principle, Hans Jonas ventures into this idea and proposes that the organic in its totality keeps and reveals principles with which it differs from the rest of the non-living world, a particular existence characterized by a fragile balance between “being” and “non-being”, that is, between preservation and death. Our objective is to analyze the concept of teleology proposed by Jonas, and then to expose the various metaphysical and evolutionary problems and comparisons in Darwin's theory of Natural Selection.
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