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- Title
“Programmed death” in Schopenhauer's World?
- Authors
Focher, F.
- Abstract
The article discusses a really enlightening passage written 41 years before Charles Darwin's book "The Origin of Species" and 150 years before the discovery of that phenomenon widely known as "programmed cell death" or apoptosis. It focuses on the philosophy propounded by Arthur Schopenhauer in his book titled "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung," which was written in 1818. Following Darwin's path, which focused on the idea that the blind "will-to-live" is the metaphysical core of the world, here Schopenhauer somehow preceded Darwin in recognizing the key role played by the immense surplus of seeds and the great strength of the fructifying impulse for the preservation of species.
- Subjects
CELL death; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL evolution; DIE Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (Book); SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur, 1788-1860; ON the Origin of Species (Book : Darwin); DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882
- Publication
Apoptosis, 2002, Vol 7, Issue 3, p285
- ISSN
1360-8185
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1023/A:1015376506490