The Metaphysical Priority of Cooperation over Competition

Subject Areas : Philosophy

Mohsen Jamalimehr ¹ (PhD Student of Philosophy of Sciences, Faculty of Law, Theology & Political Sciences, Tehran Branch of Science & Research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
babak abbasi ² (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Law, Theology and Political Science, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
reza naderloo ³ (Assistant Professor of Biology, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2020-09-22 Accepted : 2021-09-15 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Cooperation, Competition, Evolution, similarity, Environment, Relation,

Abstract :

The understanding of diversity and relation between biological individuals are the first issue of environments observations. This leads to offer evolutionary theories for explaining those facts since ancient till now. The cooperation between individuals with their environments was the basic idea of explanations in the history before Darwinian approaches. But Darwin offered his idea on base of a political economic theory which emphasis on competition between agents in economical activities. So the competition between biological entities is the foundation of Darwinian idea and any cooperation between entities in his approach explain away by consideration a competition between next level entities. On the other hand, there was not a well form and sound heredity theory in his time too. That’s why the Darwinian evolutionary theory faced some problems for explanation of some biological facts as same as others. Both of the cooperation and competition approaches alone could not explain the biological facts completely and coherently. It looks that while the basic relation between any biological individuals are cooperation with their environments, there are some race between almost same individuals for cooperation with their environments too.