Abstract

Being is the all encompassing. You are instancing Being; I am instancing Being. Being is that which we presuppose. Concerning the human world, we know that Charles Darwin wrote not only The Origin of Species, but The Descent of Man. He tried to account for how man arrived, but he did not succeed in that the way he succeeded in The Origin of Species, which attempted to cover many kinds of entities and their way of origin. In order to make the transition to man, he had to say, well, look at the monkey facing the rising sun and he takes an attitude as if it were a prayer. That is jumping a big distance. He has not made and shown the jump. Of course, if he could show that one is continuous with the other then this would conflict with the claim of the Bible about Adam and Eve. The Origin of Species, of course, was directed at Aristotle who had a doctrine of fixed species. The very title of Darwin’s book was like a punch in the nose.