Aesthetics as the cause for awakening the sciences in Charles Darwin

Authors

  • María Noel Lapoujade

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v14i2.2205

Keywords:

aesthetics, Darwin, sciences, journal, species

Abstract

In this article I propose a new perspective on Charles Darwin, needed because academic studies categorize his thinking into a spirit that is purely and exclusively scientific and ignore the aesthetic and poetic aspects which emerge throughout his works. The theme develops within the border of Philosophy and Psychology. Aesthetics works as a hinge between these two branches of knowledge through the aesthetic experiences in the heart of the logical functioning of Darwin’s mind. The method emanates from the premises of the research. Based on the purpose and the premises that underlie this article, the theme encompasses: firstly, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy [Diario del viaje de un naturalista alrededor del mundo] (1831-1836), secondly, evidence of the presence of the Journal in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection [El origen de las especies por medio de la selección natural] (1859). The conclusion confirms the meaning of the headings as key for the meaning of the paper.  

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Author Biography

María Noel Lapoujade

Montevideo, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Paris (France) and Doctor of Philosophy from UNAM (Mexico). Postgraduate studies at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Two post-doctoral degrees from the University of Paris. Full-time professor at the FFYL-UANM (1975-2012). Her work erects an original philosophy: Philosophy of imagination, images and imaginaries, from an anthropological-aesthetic-ethical-epistemological perspective, based on her conception of Homo Imaginans. Awards in Spain, Mexico, Uruguay. Included in the Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers (London-New York), in Identidad, Integración y Creación cultural en América Latina (UNESCO) and in Enciclopedia electrónica de la filosofía mexicana (Mexico, 2018). Articles published in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Costa Rica, United States, France, England, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. Books: Filosofía de la Imaginación (Mexico, 1988); Bacon y Descartes. De la coincidencia de los opuestos (Mexico, 2002); La imaginación estética en la mirada de Vermeer (Mexico, 2007); Diálogo con Gaston Bachelard acerca de la Poética (Mexico, 2011); L'imagination esthétique. Le regard de Vermeer (Belgium-France, 2017); Homo Imaginans, Ensayos completos in Four Volumes (Vol. I, 2014, and Vol. II, 2017, Mexico) Compiler in Espacios Imaginarios (Mexico, 1999); Imagen, Signo y símbolo (Mexico, 2000); Tiempos imaginarios: ritmos y ucronías (Mexico, 2002). Collective book: Homenaje a María Noel Lapoujade, 70 años de vida, 2012 (Mexico, 2018).

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Published

2020-09-03

How to Cite

Lapoujade, M. N. (2020). Aesthetics as the cause for awakening the sciences in Charles Darwin. Ciencias Psicológicas, 14(2), e-2205. https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v14i2.2205

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