Global Peace and the Problem of Perfection as a Problem of Universal Connection

The paper is devoted to perfection as an important social and philosophical issue. The author argues\nthat perfection is determined by the universal connection of phenomena in nature and in society.\nIt is proved that a systematic approach to the ways of improving human society helps to analyze\nsociety as perfection. Perfection, in the author’s opinion, is manifested in the effort to comprehend\nthe essence of the universal connection, which in the modern world stems from the ambiguity of the\ncurrent globalization trends.\nProblems of research of universal connection of phenomena is determined in many respects by the\ncrisis of modern science, as it is arises out of a variety of methodological approaches, which eventually\nform fundamentally different pictures of reality.\nIn classical philosophy, there used to be a clear distinction between simple systems, that have been\nstudied in physics or chemistry, and complex systems (scopes of biology and the humanities). Due to\nthe original premise of the identity of thinking and being classical rationalism as a methodological\nprinciple initially expressed the relevance of humanistic knowledge, aimed at revealing, though\nabstract, semantic significance of the world. The integrity of modern European culture is preserved\nthanks to the predominant focus on science and belief that it is able to provide a person with a vital\npractical orientation in the world.\nThe established tradition of unquestioning reliance on Cartesian methodological framework has led\nto the gradual lost of the universal connection of phenomena; and the world is no longer perceived as\ncoherent and unified, rather it appears as discrete and fragmented. Increasingly, the crisis condition\nof being comes forward. This condition fully reveals itself in the very problem of understanding the\nuniversal connections.\nThe universal connection of phenomena was present, in particular, in the second half of the 20th\ncentury, when there was a great increase of interest in myth as an attempt to explain the universal\nconnections of phenomena by our ancestors. For most contemporary scholars it becomes apparent that\nthinking which does not regard the primordial time and being becomes defective and environmentally\nunfriendly, whereas the lack of artistic worldview, formed largely by cosmogonic myths, threatens to\nimpoverish the culture.\nThe evaluation of the research is consistent with the relationship between a man and nature, but the\nprocess of obtaining these results implies dominating in nature studies understanding of the subjectobject\nrelationship. The author emphasizes that therefore “a backbone” of research programs\nremains unaffected, although their targets anyway reflect the inherently social task, which is to\ncontribute to the understanding and practical regulating the relations in the system “man-societynature”.The article highlights that in order to understand the essence of the universal connection of phenomena\nit is important to consider the theory of the dual feedback, according to which the feedback in\nnatural systems exists in two forms: informational and non-informational. It is believed that the noninformational\ntype circulates in inanimate nature, and the informational type starts to function only\nat the level of organic matter. The organization of systems in the living world creates a completely\ndifferent, new type of development mechanisms, unknown in inorganic nature, containing feedback\nmechanisms. This is the main feature that distinguishes the living from the nonliving creatures.\nHowever, some virus like creatures, traditionally assigned to the living world, still seemingly lack the\nability to form a feedback loop.\nThe deepening ecological crisis, as well as new discoveries in physics, has brought the need to change\nthe scientific paradigm, since classical science is unable to respond to new challenges. In this context,\nthere are questions about what to do with nuclear waste, what measures to take against poverty,\nhunger, war threats, loss of biodiversity, pollution of the planet, etc.\nAccording to the author, the universal connection, serving as perfection, involves the integration of all\nspheres of human activity and human knowledge in a single world process. This approach inevitably\nleads to dealing with problems that have become global in today’s society, but have not been solved in\nthe framework of the traditional scientific approaches

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• Etnogenez I Biosfera Zemli (Ethnogenesis and the Earth's Biosphere)

  Open Access•Philip L Wagner, Lev N Gumilev•Geographical Review•1991

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