Understanding Nature : Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology (The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics) <Vol. 13>

Darwin, although regarded by Nietzsche as an arid 6 and mediocre mind, exposed himself to the experience of a long-term trans-oceanic voyage in the course of which he did discover new worlds, new justifications, new moral watchwords even ("struggle for life") that were to have a tremendous impact on science, philosophy and even culture at large.