CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF PROGRESS IN DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION
Anna Drogosz
Katedra Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w OlsztynieAbstract
The objective of this article is an analysis of those conceptual metaphors and analogies
used by Darwin in his book On the Origin of Species which introduce the notion of progress
to the concept of evolutionary change. The analysis covers the analogy between artificial
and natural selection, conceptual metaphors of journey, struggle and tree with the UP – DOWN
schema. We demonstrate that some aspects of these metaphors make progress an inherent
part of the concept of evolution.
Keywords:
progress, conceptual metaphors, Charles DarwinReferences
Greene J.C., Progress, Science, and Value: A Biological Dilemma, Biology and Philosophy 1991, Vol. 6, No. 1. Google Scholar
Ruse M., Monad to Man. The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary, Cambridge, Harvard University Press 1996. Google Scholar
Rosslenbroich B., The Notion of Progress in Evolutionary Biology – the Unresolved Problem and an Empirical Suggestion, Biology and Philosophy 2006, Vol. 21, No. 1. Google Scholar
Lovejoy A., The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. Cambridge, Harvard University Press 1974. Google Scholar
Young R.M., Darwin’s Metaphor: Nature’s Place in Victorian Culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1985. Google Scholar
Beer G., Darwin’s Plots, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1983. Google Scholar
Al-Zahrani A., Darwin’s Metaphors Revisited: Conceptual Metaphors, Conceptual Blends, and Idealized Cognitive Google Scholar
Models in the Theory of Evolution, Metaphor and Symbol 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 50–82. Google Scholar
Drogosz A., Ontological Metaphors in Darwin’s The Origin of Species, in: S. Puppel and Bogusławska-Tafelska M., Google Scholar
New Pathways in Linguistics, Olsztyn, Instytut Neofilologii, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski 2008. Google Scholar
Drogosz A., Metaphors of Family, Tree and Struggle in Darwin’s The Origin of Species, in: S. Puppel and M. Google Scholar
Bogusławska-Tafelska, New Pathways in Linguistics… Google Scholar
Drogosz A., Metaphors of Time and Darwin’s Scenario of Evolution, Prace Językoznawcze 2012, Vol. 12, p. 77–88. Google Scholar
Lakoff G. and M. Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh. The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought, New York, Basic Books 1999. Google Scholar
Kövecses Z., Metaphor. A Practical Introduction, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press 2002. Google Scholar
Krzeszowski T., Angels and Devils in Hell, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Energeia 1997. Google Scholar
Katedra Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
Most read articles by the same author(s)
- Anna Drogosz, EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: FROM DARWIN TO DAWKINS , Acta Neophilologica: Vol. 2 No. XV (2013): Acta Neophilologica
- Anna Drogosz, FROM OBJECTIFICATION TO PERSONIFICATION. DARWIN’S CONCEPT OF (NATURAL) SELECTION , Acta Neophilologica: Vol. 1 No. XIX (2012): Acta Neophilologica
- Anna Drogosz, THE CONCEPTUAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN POLISH MARKERS1 OF REFLEXTVTTY: SIEBIE AND SIĘ , Acta Neophilologica: No. VII (2005): Acta Neophilologica