Dear Colleagues
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Prof Rafael Winkler
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Professor
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Philosophy
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DPhil: Philosophy
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The department of Philosophy warmly invites you to attend our in-person colloquium series. The upcoming colloquium will take place on the 10th of September 2025, presented by
Dr Jonti Bloomberg (University of Johannesburg) and the talk is titled "Schopenhauer as an Evolutionist”.
Title: Schopenhauer as an Evolutionist
Speaker: Dr Jonti Bloomberg
Date: 10 September 2025
Time: 11:00 – 13:00
Venue: Faculty of Humanities Common Room
RSVP:
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Abstract:
After reading Robert Chambers' 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' in or after 1847, the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer attempted to incorporate evolutionary theory into his philosophical system; this is problematic in so far as Schopenhauer
is also a radical idealist, maintaining that the perceptible world is entirely mind-dependent. In the presentation I will argue that the two views (evolution and radical idealism) are incompatible within Schopenhauer's philosophical system. To that end I will
briefly cover Schopenhauer's Platonic theory of the variety of species as propounded by him in his principal work in 1818/1819, his attitude towards the pre-Darwinian evolutionist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, as expressed in his 1836 work and his particular evolutionary
theory ('generation in the womb of another') from his last major philosophical work published in 1851.
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Dr Tony Shabangu
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Philosophy Lecturer
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Philosophy
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Faculty of Humanities
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