Goldsmith darwinista

Señalamos en este artículo algunos elementos del pensamiento sobre el orden natural de Oliver Goldsmith, a propósito de su relato oriental 'Asem'. Puede leerse en él una teodicea, el relato de una reconciliación con la realidad, amén de una reflexión sobre la 'scala naturae' en la tradición de la doctrina dieciochesca de la 'plenitud máxima' en el mejor de los mundos posibles. Aquí apuntamos la relación de estas cuestiones con una concepción protodarwinista de la economía de los ecosistemas naturales y de la complejidad.

Goldsmith darwinista 

http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3383378

Jose Angel Garcia Landa

Universidad de Zaragoza

Date Written: 2009  Posted: 30 May 2019

English Abstract:

Darwinian Goldsmith
This paper points out some elements of Oliver Goldsmith's thoughts on the order of Nature, as evidenced in his oriental tale 'Asem'. This tale can be read as a theodicy, as the story of a reconciliation to reality, as well as a reflection on the 'scala naturae' in the eighteenth-century tradition of a 'full nature' exhibiting the maximum variety of being in the best of possible worlds. Here I point out a connection between these issues and a proto-Darwinist conception of the economy of natural ecosystems and of complexity.

Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish.

Keywords: Complexity, Darwinism, Oliver Goldsmith, Natural order, Natural philosophy, Theodicy


Suggested Citation:

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, Goldsmith darwinista (Darwinian Goldsmith) (2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3383378 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3383378

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3383378

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