Il Domenicale di oggi 12 giugno, del Sole 24 Ore, in prima pagina, riporta il saggio dell’economista, premio Nobel, Amartya Sen dedicato alle implicazioni sociali del darwinismo e pubblicato nell’imminente volume delle edizioni Il Mulino:
Razionalità e libertà. Il saggio si trova nella parte V, cap. 16 e si intitola: La visione darwiniana del progresso.
L’edizione originale del libro è stata pubblicata dalla Harvard University Press; questo e’ il sommario. Il saggio presente nel libro ripropone l’articolo pubblicato su Population and Development Review del marzo 1993 (vol. 19, n. 1, pp. 123-137) di cui riporto il riassunto:
There are three distinct components in the Darwinian analysis of evolutionary progress: (1) an explanation of how evolution works; (2) an idea of what constitutes progress; and (3) a substantiation of the way evolution brings about progress. Of the three, the first is thoroughly profound. But the other two features are limited by Darwin's attempt to see progress entirely in terms of the quality of the species. This approach, which concentrates on the characteristics of living beings rather than on the actual lives they can lead, yields a very limited view of progress and diverts attention from the need to adjust the world in which we live. This, in turn, has encouraged either activism in genetic manipulation (as in the eugenics movements), or a passive reliance on spontaneous progress (more in line with Darwin's own pronouncements). These limitations are particularly telling in the contemporary world, given the prevalence of remediable deprivations. We do need Darwin, but only in moderation
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