Like the Romantics, Charles Darwin was deeply though fruitfully torn between the mechanist dictate to banish agency from nature and the organicist impulse to naturalize agency, to make agency synonymous with life. His conflicting intellectual inheritances and allegiances put him in a state of profound and extraordinarily productive ambivalence.

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达尔文与自然和科学中的能动性问题


与浪漫主义者一样，查尔斯·达尔文在机械主义的命令下将能动性从自然中驱逐出去，与有机主义将能动性自然化，使能动性成为生活的代名词的冲动之间，深深地但富有成效地左右为难。他相互矛盾的知识遗产和忠诚使他处于一种深刻而富有成效的矛盾状态。