Transformaciones del pensamiento de darwin en cabo de hornos: Un legado para la ciencia y la etica ambiental

Abstract

In this paper, I examine how in the course of his life Darwin transformed his initial judgments about the Fuegian people, and how this change of judgment is associated with the maturation of his concepts to forge the theory of human evolution. From the identification of these concepts, I analyze the implications for a scientific thought and for an environmental ethics that may contribute to address some of the ultimate causes of the current global socio-environmental crisis. In the context of this special issue of Magallania, this analysis offers a theoretical explanation of the name of the international course in Field Environmental Philosophy, which is also called "Tracing Darwin's Path in Cape Horn," offered annually since 2005 by the University of Magallanes and the University of North Texas University in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. Darwin, C. R. (1869).On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.