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Outline of World Outlook

Author(s): Václav Stupka
Subject(s): Epistemology, Ontology
Published by: Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních studií, z. ú.
Keywords: ontology; gnoseology; system; evolution;

Summary/Abstract: The unity of the whole world is manifested also by its static aspect, but particularly by its dynamics so that the parts of self-preservative substance become the structured systems during the differentiation and during the integration of systems. Each of the systems is a super-system which is hierarchically superior to its subsystems; super-systems are more efficient than subsystems. Energy enters into the temporal relations between systems under appropriate conditions and thus from those relations, there arise the powers whose effect is the evolution of systems. Within the evolution, in original super-systems and of the minority of their properties, there new properties have arisen and of these properties, there new systems arise. At the beginning, new systems only hold the majority of those original properties of their super-system. After, new systems are the more far from the super-system from which they have arisen successively, the greater is their specificity. The whole world is the only dynamic super-system which contains all the gradually more remote specific its subsystems. The principal part of each system is its centre which clashes against the centres of other systems about the gaining the different parts for own its system and thus keeps the borders of that system as well as self-preservatively its existence. There are stated the polar, the functional and the hierarchically centralized systems. With regard to cognition, mesocosm (i. e. nature, including man) is emphasized. To understand it, the consensus between macrocosm and microcosm is important; that consensus somewhat overcomes egocentrism. In the world, there is not particularly so much difference in the complexity of things as in our interest in them. Contrary to useful qualities, quantity (as the quantistic conception of the world) and the mathematical processing of knowledge are emphasized. In terms of time, it is foremost to understand past. The outlined principles are supported by the world evolution from the inorganic substance past wildlife to the human specificities.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 231-238
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Czech