On The Biology of ‘Philosophy’: Auditing the Natural Characteristics of ‘Philosophy’ Through Biological Codes – Vitalism & Mechanism

Abstract

We are all familiar with the phrases ‘philosophy of history’, ‘philosophy of biology’, etc. and we serve our purpose to analyze them in virtue of the code that every philosopher is familiar with, and this code has become more of a creed. Many names are available for this practice, such as; critical evaluation, theory or theoretical structure, the range of questions, methods or principles, etc. Now, if we overturn the phrase as in ‘philosophy of history’ to ‘history of philosophy’, it seems that we found something concrete, something Natural, which partially or absolutely transcends some of the intentions of philosophy. At the same time, every philosopher would insist that the term 'history' itself and its meanings are inherently groomed by philosophy itself. But indulging in this overturning, we believe, we could yield other possibilities that were almost blind to us until now. Thus, in this paper, we try to observe philosophy from the dilated lens of biology, ascertaining the true nature of philosophy; as being fundamental as life itself; as being a living world. This process, at the same time, also reciprocate to the capability of the methodology inherent in the theoretical biology, on its part to analyze and explicate the natural features of subjects like philosophy. Hence, we attempt to prove that philosophy is also the other name for Nature, by putting, and reiterating, it under the lens of biology.