Three masters of philosophy who were not philosophers [Darwin, Newman, Freud] in Anthony Kenny's An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy.. [Part 1]

CHAPTER 20

THREE MODERN MASTERS

CHARLES DARWIN

In his funeral oration on Karl Marx, Engels described the materialist conception of history as a scientific breakthrough comparable with Darwin’s discovery of evolution by natural selection. Unlike Marx’s theory, Darwin’s discovery was a genuine scientific advance, and the detailed discussion of it belongs to …