Publication details
Informace jako antropologický fenomén
| Title in English | Information as anthropological phenomenon |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | It draws on the de Chardinian concept of anthropology and cosmology based on a specific phenomenology, often called personalism. The publication goes on to analyse information as a certain anthropological construct, from the broadest context to the intellectual core of human beings. On the first level the topic of information society is introduced as a social phenomenon that creates an information environment and sets limits to all activities pursued by people in the Western civilisation area at the beginning of the 21st century. People are not isolated beings; culture, politics, economics as well as social determinants are what creates the world they must adapt to; as well as the world they actively co-create. On the second level there is a thorough analysis of thinking, which is understood especially in the context of the employing of categories as the basic means of human way of thinking. Categories enable us to classify the world; they bring order in it and create a space for its exploration by the natural sciences. The aim of information science is mainly to create these structures, study them and explore the meaning of their setup for human life and for cognition as such. Last but not least the authors attempted to show why computers cannot replace thinking humans and the influence of the problem of artificial technology on education and the philosophy of education. The third (the most basic level) deals with the means of human thinking. When attempting to describe humans in the world of information we need to know the answer to the question of what thinking is and what its means are. Here the Hegelian “man as a thinking consciousness” is analysed and problematised. This publication has an interdisciplinary character. It integrates the findings of philosophy, physics, philosophy of education, linguistics, information science and other specialisations, offering a synthesis based on de Chardinian philosophy. |
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