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What, in simple terms, is "the absolute"?

In "Purpose, Meaning & Darwinism," Mary Midgley accepts the ultimate conclusion of Darwinism that human beings are entirely a product of natural processes (i.e., evolution). However, she attempts to rescue from this state of affairs the idea that the universe exhibits a telos or purpos...

I think the connection between evolutionary theory and pragmatism is the abandonment of the dream of human beings obtaining certain knowledge of the "true nature of reality," of the idea that human beings have some privileged access to a truth that lies outside of the physical world. In Ex...