Society, Ideology, and Cosmic Organicity: Human Discursivity and the Post-Mechanistic Turn in Biology
Ongoing developments in evolutionary and systems biology highlight the deficiencies of reductionistic and mechanistic explanations of the "organic" world (and widen the meaning and application of this term). Whitehead's ontology provides the basis for a unified theory of social organi...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Process Studies
[2016]
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Process studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-57 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Philosophy of science
/ Organicism
/ The Postmodern
/ Process philosophy
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| RelBib Classification: | VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Ontology
B Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 B Ideology B Evolution (Biology) B Social Structure B Social Development |
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| Summary: | Ongoing developments in evolutionary and systems biology highlight the deficiencies of reductionistic and mechanistic explanations of the "organic" world (and widen the meaning and application of this term). Whitehead's ontology provides the basis for a unified theory of social organization that connects the emergence of primitive life to the development and diversification of human societies along a continuum of creative ontogeneration. The metaphysical characteristic of "creativity" is precisely the manifestation of the ontogenerative relationship between possibility and actuality. Actualization is change. While all actualization necessarily exhibits some degree of continuity with the past, it is driven by the inertiac availability of specific relevant forms of possibility (eternal objects), through which it has access to an array of "novel" forms for actualization. This relation to novelty explains everything from the emergence ofprokaryotes on earth 3.6 billion years ago to the possibility of ideological resistance in human societies today. |
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| ISSN: | 0360-6503 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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