RHETOR 109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Georges Canguilhem, Ethology, Vitalism
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Notion of the milieu is becoming a universal and obligatory mode of apprehending the experience and existence of living beings, constituted as a category of contemporary thought. Philosophy must take the initiative in investigating the meaning and value of this concept through a critical comparison of several approaches. Examine (1) simultaneous and successive components of the notion of milieu (2) varieties of its use from 1800 to out time, (3) reversals of the relationship between organism and milieu (4) general philosophical impact of these reversals. Notion imported from mechanics into biology during the second half of the. Lamarck introduced into biology, only in the plural: milieu: fluis like water, art and light, never said milieu, always (cid:498)influencing circumstances. / mechanic (2) tradition of anthropo-geographers principles of animal ethology. M to be negligible, poses the biological problem of relations between. O and m in the form of a mathematical problem.
