The human being, product of evolution and referent for historical and social transformation

Abstract

This essay analyzes the human being as an evolutionary product, a traveler who boards the ship of time, traversing epochs and contexts with a long trajectory until reaching our present day. The objective of this work is to provide a panoramic view of the background, factors, and processes of evolution and the human being as a reference for knowledge, thought, and action. The work was carried out using the heuristic method, which consists of finding and investigating necessary information in historical documents or sources for research processes, and the hermeneutic method, which explains, translates, and interprets the existing relationships between a fact and the context in which it occurs. The exposition is divided into four sections: the first section presents the development of evolution and discusses its precedents and factors from Lamarck's and Darwin's philosophies; the second section outlines Klages' metaphysical thinking and Dilthey's historicist thinking in the development of history; the third section presents human actions as products of thinking and knowing; and finally, the last section addresses the current reality of human beings and their challenges in the long historical-evolutionary process.