03.15.10

Evolution, art, language, morality, and tragic genre

Posted in Evolution, The Axial Age at 1:04 pm by nemo

Top ranked post this month: Evolution and the Tragic Genre

The idea of the evolution of morality is matched in the Axial data (thus the eonic effect, as ‘eonic evolution’) by the sudden appearance of the tragic genre. This is a spectacular example of the fine-grain of evolution, something unexpected, which will forever after caution us against stupid reductionist explainations of things like art or morality.

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