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Schelling, Hegel, and Evolutionary Progress
- Perspectives on Science
- The MIT Press
- Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2012
- pp. 105-128
- Article
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This article presents Schelling’s claim that nature has an evolutionary process and Hegel’s response that nature is the development of the concept. It then examines whether evolution is progressive. This article argues that, insofar as a notion of progress is conceptually ineliminatable from evolutionary biology or required to articulate the shape of life’s history, progress should be viewed as constitutive.