"Natural selection is often presented as a neutral mechanism: variations happen, environments sift for survival, and survivors survive.
Traits don’t just “happen” to persist—they’re praised as “adaptive,” “better,” “more fit.”
What is, survives, and what survives is good. It’s an Hegelian loop; He famously said (in Philosophy of Right): “all that is real is rational, and all that is rational is real.” The tautological substitution is the same for natural selection.
Nietzsche nailed the lineage: “without Hegel there would have been no Darwin.”
Nietzsche nailed the lineage: “without Hegel there would have been no Darwin.”
CEH