'Why are we here in this man's Villa in Ibiza?

We have mounted the steps once more

 

and we are back at his villa. His friend Finbar is not here as he had to go to a 'meeting'

After some drinks, our host has taken us to another room where at the head of  a capacious double bed there hangs a large painting.

"Do you know Gauguin??"
"Well of him, yes..."
"Oh this is not an original obviously but I do like to have it hanging above my head as I lay my old bonce down for some shut eye."
We look at the little plaque underneath the painting which reads
'Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going?'
"D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?" offers my partner without hesitation.
"Oh your French is as faultless as your Spanish."
"Annual visits to a French family in Alsace where I had to speak French,"
"Ah lucky girl to be tri lingual...and you Bosco."
I shuffle in embarrassment, "No, I don't...I..."
"Oh he does speak some French..." I hear her support.
"
Anyway'Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? is the title Gauguin gave to this painting...it was a question Gauguin was always asking..."

"Did he have an answer."
"No, I don't think so."
"Do you?" I ask coming across as unnecessarily belligerent
"I have come to the conclusion that the sources of our morality, our religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature. As is all that philosophical questioning. There...that was a mouthful wasn't it?
We follow him into the living room, I look out of the vast windows and feel my legs shaking with vertigo.
"What do you think of the view?"
"Great, great."
"Oh look!"  On a glass table there is a cake wrapper which is being overun by ants.
"Finbar, sometimes he holds his 'meetings' here. They are usually very tidy...but..."
We all look at the cake wrapper and the ants swarming over it.
Interesting...it is what I was referring to early that all our central concerns, the sort of question that Gaugain asked are rooted in biology.
Look at these ants the institution of slavery is not unique to human societies it is rooted in Biology.
Ants depend on slave labour for their existence. Darwin was fascinated by ant slavery.
"How does it work?"
Large colonies of ants attack smaller colonies and carry off the pupae. They then allow the pupae to develop into workers. It is that sophisticated.
So next time there is a philosophcal debate on the Greeks and there is passing reference made to their
slave society one can rest assured that the Greeks philosophy was rooted in Biology.