Autore: Tagliagambe, Silvano
Titolo: Dialogando con Merleau-Ponty
Periodico: Estetica
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 265 - Pagina finale: 279

Luca Taddioi’s «ideal» dialogue with Merleau-Ponty in his book dedicated to analysing his thinking allows us to focus on the epistemological obstacles, the traps that prevent us from grasping the distortions of the usual definition of environment. In particular, they do not allow us to consider that the situation of contemporary biology is not exactly that of Darwin’s times, and that there is obvious confusion between the correct assertion that there is a physical world outside of an organism that would continue to exist in the absence of the species, and the incorrect claim that environments exist without species. Consequently, it is necessary to distinguish «the environment» in the sense of the real total state of the entire universe – which, of course, is not caused by the genes or the developmental mechanisms of any individual – from «the environment» in the sense of those particular aspects of the world that are rendered developmentally mentally relevant by the evolved design of an organism’s developmental adaptations. It is this developmentally relevant environment – the environment as interacted with by the organism – that, in a meaningful sense, can be said to be the product of evolution, evolving in tandem with the organism’s organized response to it. The confusion of these two quite distinct senses of «environment» has obscured the fact that the recurrent organization of the environment contributes a biological inheritance parallel to that of the genes, which acts in a similar way to them from an evolutionary point of view.




SICI: 2039-6635(2025)1<265:DCM>2.0.ZU;2-7
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