{"id":1296,"date":"2012-03-05T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blocs.iec.cat\/arban\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2012-03-05T19:28:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:28:33","slug":"james-r-moore-darwin-antiesclavisme-humanitarisme-i-teoria-de-la-descendencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/2012\/03\/05\/james-r-moore-darwin-antiesclavisme-humanitarisme-i-teoria-de-la-descendencia\/","title":{"rendered":"James R. Moore: Darwin: antiesclavisme, humanitarisme i teoria de la descend\u00e8ncia"},"content":{"rendered":"

James R. Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n

(<\/strong>Professor of the History of Science at the Open University) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Darwin: antiesclavisme, humanitarisme i teoria de la descend\u00e8ncia<\/strong><\/p>\n

dues confer\u00e8ncies a Barcelona (15 i 16 de mar\u00e7 de 2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Darwin\u2019s \u201csacred cause\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dijous 15 de mar\u00e7 \u00a0a les 18 hores<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sala d\u2019Actes de la Delegaci\u00f3 del CSIC a Catalunya<\/p>\n

(c\/ Egipc\u00edaques, 15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 08001 Barcelona)<\/p>\n

Abstract: <\/strong>Why did Charles Darwin, a rich and impeccably upright gentleman, go out of his way to develop privately a subversive image of human evolution in 1837-39? Why did he pursue the subject with tenacity for three decades before publishing The Descent of Man<\/em> in 1871? A radical reassessment of the basis of Darwin\u2019s achievement provides the answer. In the standard myth, Darwin was a heroic genius discovering gems of truth beyond the vision of ordinary mortals. He was a great scientist getting on with a scientist\u2019s proper job, not a Victorian naturalist with a consuming moral passion. But today we need to examine the circumstances that made it possible for Darwin to craft a theory from available cultural resources. Underpinning his work on human origins was a belief in racial brotherhood rooted in the greatest moral movement of his age, for the abolition of slavery. For abolitionists, the human races were members of one family, with a common ancestry. Darwin extended the `common descent\u2019 image to the rest of life, making not just the races, but all races<\/em> kin. Darwin\u2019s science wasn\u2019t the dispassionate practise of textbook caricature; it was driven by human needs and foibles. Even our most vaunted theories may be fostered by humanitarian concern.<\/p>\n

Acte organitzat per la L\u00ednia d\u2019Investigaci\u00f3 \u00abPr\u00e0ctiques culturals, sabers i patrimoni en espais urbans: m\u00fasica, ci\u00e8ncia, medicina\u00bb de la IMF-CSIC en el marc dels projectes d\u2019investigaci\u00f3 fi nan\u00e7ats per la Direcci\u00f3 General d\u2019Investigaci\u00f3, \u00abSanitat militar, medicina de guerra i humanitarisme en l\u2019Espanya del segle XIX\u00bb (HAR2011-24134) i \u00abCi\u00e8ncia i creen\u00e7a entre dos mons. Evolucionisme, biopol\u00edtica i religi\u00f3 a Espanya i Argentina\u00bb (HAR2010-21333-C03-03).<\/p>\n

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James R. Moore<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

(<\/strong>Professor of the History of Science at the Open University) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Darwin and the \u201csin\u201d of slavery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Divendres 16 de\u00a0 a les 19 hores<\/p>\n

Institut d\u00b4Estudis Catalans <\/strong><\/p>\n

(Sala Pi i Sunyer – c\/Carme, 48, Barcelona) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract: <\/strong>Integral to Darwin\u2019s vision of life\u2019s history was the moral progress that must bring about the abolition of black chattel slavery. Yet the progress he expected could not be easily reconciled with his sense of evolutionary contingency. A man who, in the name of suffering slaves, damned the white man\u2019s \u2018arrogance\u2019 in believing himself the \u2018godlike\u2019 goal of creation, could not rest comfortably in believing that history must realize his own highest moral goal, black emancipation. In the 1850s, Darwin\u2019s dilemma became increasingly poignant as the conflict over slavery in the United States turned into a holocaust. He could still hope for abolition, but in a dark hour he had to admit, \u2018a man cannot hope by intention\u2019. It was only after the emancipation of America\u2019s slaves in the 1860s, when he turned at last to publish on human origins, that Darwin\u2019s optimism revived. In the Descent of Man<\/em> (1871), \u2018the great sin of slavery\u2019 is among the evils to be abolished as \u2018the civilised races of man \u2026 exterminate and replace\u2019 races that were formerly enslaved. \u2018At some future period\u2019, not many centuries hence, Darwin prophesied, \u2018virtue will be triumphant\u2019.<\/p>\n

Acte organitzat per la Societat Catalana d\u2019Hist\u00f2ria de la Ci\u00e8ncia i de la T\u00e8cnica (SCHCT), societat filial de l\u2019Institut d\u2019Estudis Catalans (IEC), amb la col\u00b7laboraci\u00f3 de la L\u00ednia d\u2019Investigaci\u00f3 \u00abPr\u00e0ctiques culturals, sabers i patrimoni en espais urbans: m\u00fasica, ci\u00e8ncia, medicina\u00bb de la IMF-CSIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James R. Moore (Professor of the History of Science at the Open University) Darwin: antiesclavisme, humanitarisme i teoria de la descend\u00e8ncia dues confer\u00e8ncies a Barcelona (15 i 16 de mar\u00e7 de 2012) Darwin\u2019s \u201csacred cause\u201d Dijous 15 de mar\u00e7 \u00a0a les 18 hores Sala d\u2019Actes de la Delegaci\u00f3 del CSIC a Catalunya (c\/ Egipc\u00edaques, 15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}