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Integralni aperspektivizam ili konstruktivni postmodernizam
Integrative Aperspectivism or Constructive Postmodernism

Author(s): Vanja Borš
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: postmodernity; integral approach; aperspectivism; constructive postmodernism; post-formal level of cognition

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to make aware that an integral approach is immanently postmodern, i.e. that exactly such an approach, that is an integral aperspectivism, is a precondition for a constructive postmodernism. Hence, the basic characteristics of postmodernism are briefly outlined – constructivism, contextualism, multi(pluri)perspectivism and aperspectivism – which are also crucial components of any integral approach to reality. Special attention is paid to aperspectivism in this context in order to highlight – contrary to the extreme pluralism and the relativism of nihilist and destructive postmodernism – critical evaluation, ranking, etc., as essential features of the integral approach (integral aperspectivism), that is, of a constructive postmodernism thereby integrating a multitude of perspectives within their functional validity. Ultimately, it is stated that precisely in the postmodern era emerge anthropological preconditions for such a nonexclusive and context-adaptive, integral approach to reality, while the attention, on this occasion, is focused on the cognitive developmental line, that is, on the post-formal level of cognition.

  • Issue Year: 34/2014
  • Issue No: 04/136
  • Page Range: 521-527
  • Page Count: 7