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Jak oživit "zamrzlou" evoluční ontologii
| Title in English | How to revive the "frozen" evolutionary ontology |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Filosofický casopis |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | strong/weak anthropocentrism; evolutionary ontology; epigenetic/structural information; culture; the myth of Prometheus; nature; Hegelo-Marxist/Kantian strategies |
| Description | This discussion study takes as its starting point the thinking, which Professor Smajs and others presented in Filosoficky casopis 6, 2013 on evolutionary ontology. The author shows an enduring aspect of evolutionary ontology: ontology as the product of human culture attains to knowledge that has the seeming character of objective truth it thus expresses the true nature of the ontic order of nature. This is not, however, the usual nonsense of inconsistent philosophy. The author of the text identifies as lying behind this step Kantian and Hegelian strategies which make possible this shift from the order of culture to the order of nature. These strategies are (i) a sign of the grounding of Professor Smajs' ideas in early-modern thinking; and (ii) they are the cause of a strongly anthropocentric attitude, which unwittingly influences the system of evolutionary-ontology At the end of the study, the author points to the fact that it would be more appropriate for evolutionary ontology if its proponents were able to give up their early-modern argumentative approach, and thus rid themselves of their strong anthropocentrism. In this way they would be able to avoid the conceptual conflict which makes evolutionary ontology "frozen" from within. |
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