Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… and social reforms. People > Science People > Art and Literature People > Philosophy Mots-clés Abolition Affection Community Correspondence Lunar society Social Contract Half a century before Charles Darwin published his essay On the … grows, individuals become increasingly sensitive to their own affections and receptive to the others’, which creates a community of sensation beyond the strict limit of the parent-child relationship. Darwin used the image of the social … of sociability as it is defined by Darwin: it is the refusal to sympathize with fellow-humans and share the community of affects which binds them together. ‘Am I not a man and a brother?’ says the slave on the famous medallion …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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