β Scribed by Leon Chernyak; Alfred I. Tauber
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Although it might appear that progress in modem biology does not depend on elucidating the concept of individuality, relegating the problem to marginal notes or jubilant lectures leaves important lacunae at the core of modem biological theories. With such treatment, cliches may insinuate themselves from ancient intellectual paradigms (and erroneously be regarded as revolutionary insights), and substitute for serious discussion. For instance, Aristotle defined organism as the carrier of its identity, which as any finite entity, has a birth and death. Because of its finitude, the organism cannot endlessly satisfy its primary drive to sustain itself and therefore must reproduce in its own kind. Surprisingly, this same definition is invoked in current discussions under the title of Darwinian definition of individuality.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
In the earlier versions of epic literature the organising power was myth or an organic intuition and empathy of divine substance. In the modern novel, by contrast, it is the solitary individual, for whom mundane society represents the only transcendency. Solitude is one of the keynotes in epic liter