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ON CO-EVOLUTION
ON CO-EVOLUTION

Author(s): John Rensenbrink
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: co-evolution; nature; dialogue; determinism; inter-action; relational reality; agency in nature

Summary/Abstract: The theory and practice of co-evolution offers a way forward for humanity that goes well beyond the deterministic confines of an outmoded mechanistic science that still inhabits much academic thought and research; and also goes well beyond post-deterministic efforts to exempt the human mind and will from its presumed inexorable embeddedness in the mechanistically perceived life and motions of the body. Co-evolution rejects both and goes to the root of the matter regarding nature. It decisively affirms the post-mechanistic understandings of nature by quantum physics, feminist critique of patriarchy, and ecological philosophy. Co-evolution affirms that nature’s relational and animated being situates the human being and all individual human beings in an interactive mode. From this, dialogue is a natural, instead of a contrived, out-growth and fulfillment of the human project. The way then is clear for humanity to co-evolve interdependently with natural forces for mutual benefit.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 21-24
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English