Biology & Political Science. Foundational Issues of Political Biology
Biology & Political Science. Foundational Issues of Political Biology
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生物学
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2005
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M. Boari
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M. Boari
在他们的经典公式中，自我保护的问题是政治学和经济学的基础，至今仍然有效。为了固定这一概念，现代理论家依赖于对人性的各种假设。由于生物学和进化论的进步，我们今天能够以稳定的科学假设的形式来解释这些假设。生物学理论中的一个基本概念是“适应性”。本文指出了较不确定的自我保护概念与较严格的适应性概念之间的关系。这样，它完成了两件事：它通过将政治理论和政治经济学锚定在生物学中，使它们的基础更加稳固;它开辟了两种社会科学与它们直接并列的科学生物学之间统一的道路。本文的研究重点是政治学，目的是在上述论证的基础上确定政治学的研究对象。因此定义了适应度提取的概念。一个横向的解释区分政治行动，因此理解，和经济行动，更一般地定义为健身转移。这一区别最终将在另一项研究中进一步加以阐述。
In their classic formulations, valid to this day, the issue of self-preservation is foundational for both political science and economics. In order to fixate this concept, the Modern theorists relied upon various assumptions about human nature. Due to the advances of biology and evolutionary theory, we are today in the position of explicating these assumptions in the form of stable scientific certainties. A foundational concept in biological theory is that of "fitness". The paper indicates the relationship between the less determined concept of self-preservation and the more rigorous one of fitness. By that, it accomplishes two things: it gives more solidity to the foundation of political theory and political economy, by anchoring them in biology; it opens the path towards a unification between two social sciences and their immediate juxtaposed science, biology. The emphasis of the paper is on political science, aiming to define, on the basis of the above argument, its proper object of study. The notion of fitness extraction is thus defined. A lateral exposition differentiates between political action, thus understood, and economic action, defined more generally as fitness transfer. The distinction is to be eventually furthered in a separate study.