HUMAN PARADIGM IN THE MILITARY AREA. A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH
HUMAN PARADIGM IN THE MILITARY AREA. A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH

Author(s): Ion SÎRBU
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Philosophy, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: human; human paradigm; humanism; security; military sphere; war.
Summary/Abstract: All the areas of human existence can be analysed within the human paradigm, inclusively the military one. It is necessary to ensure the safety of the human species and it's living environment. The paradigm generally presents itself as the dominant vision, as a model for addressing and solving the problems of one or another epoch, or stages of the development of human science and practice. Paradigms can be particular, general and universal.Ecological paradigm, for example, can be used in most sciences and fields, including the military sphere. It imposes the imperative not to harm, not to destroy, to preserve and restore the nature and its various elements, including the human nature, therefore of his body and mind.Human paradigm is a universal one and can be used in all fields and spheres of human knowledge and activity, including military ones.The universal nature of the human paradigm seems to be incompatible with the military sphere. Or, even more, the military activity seems fall under an opposite paradigm – an anti-human paradigm. Human paradigm can be turned to good account gradually and often only partially,in military research, science and practice, including in war-related ones. Globalization, based on the universal human paradigm, could lead to the exclusion from violence and wars of all kinds from human practice.

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