The author uses the works of 19th-century writers Edward Bellamy and Charles S. Peirce to critique the philosophy of greed implicit in social Darwinism. The article includes a discussion of Bellamy's "Looking Backward" and Peirce's notion of "evolutionary love."
WRITING IN 1893, the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce characterized the nineteenth century as "the Economical Century," because of the way capitalist economic theory dominated all branches of thought. The effects of this ...