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Thomas Henry Huxley [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Thomas Henry Huxley, the distinguished zoologist and advocate of
Darwinism, madeseveral incursions into philosophy. From his youth he had studied its problems unsystematically;
he had a way of going straight to the point in any discussion; and,
judged by a literary standard, he was a great master of expository
and argumentative prose. Apart from his special work in science, he
had an important influence upon English thought through his numerous
addresses and essays on the topics of science, philosophy, religion,
and politics. Among the most important of his papers relevant here
are those entitled 'The Physical Basis of Life' (1868), and 'On the
Hypothesis that Animals are Automata' (1874), along with a monograph
on Hume (1879) and the Romanes lecture Ethics and Evolution
(1893). Huxley is credited with the invention of the term
'agnosticism' to describe his philosophical position: it expresses
his attitude towards certain traditional questions without giving any
clear delimitation of the frontiers of the knowable. He regards
consciousness as a collateral effect of certain physical causes, and
only an effect--never also a cause. But, on the other hand, he holds
that matter is only a symbol, and that all physical phenomena can be
analyzed into states of consciousness. This leaves mental facts in
the peculiar position of being collateral effects of something that,
after all, is only a symbol for a mental fact; and the contradiction
is left without remark.
His contributions to ethics are still more
remarkable. In a paper entitled 'Science and Morals' (1888), he
concluded that the safety of morality lay "in a real and living
belief in that fixed order of nature which sends social
disorganization on the track of immorality." His Romanes lecture
reveals a different tone. In it the moral order is contrasted with
the cosmic order; evolution shows constant struggle; instead of
looking to it for moral guidance, he "repudiates the gladiatorial
theory of existence." He saw that the facts of historical process
did not constitute validity for moral conduct; and his plain language
compelled other to see the same truth. But he exaggerated the
opposition between them and did not leave room for the influence of
moral ideas as a factor in the historical process.
Another man of science, William Kingdon Clifford, professor of
mathematics in London, dealt in occasional essays with some central
points in the theory of knowledge, ethics, and religion. In these
essays he aimed at an interpretation of life in the light of the new
science. There was insight as well as courage in all he wrote, and
it was conveyed in a brilliant style. But his work was cut short by
his early death in 1879, and his contributions to philosophy remain
suggestions only.
The author of this article is anonymous. The IEP is actively seeking an author who will write a replacement article.
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