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>Plato: humans are patterned on an intelligible, ideal Form of Man
BTFO by Darwin
>Aristotle: trees, animals and humans have an inherent telos
BTFO by Darwin
>Augustine and Aquinas: God created human beings
BTFO by Darwin
>Descartes:
>Kant: human rationality is universal
BTFO by Darwin

What's the point in reading all of this pre-20th century philosophy when all of their abstract speculations about "Man = X" has been BTFO by the neo-Darwinian synthesis that actually explains how nature works?

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