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Series 17

PHILOSOPHY. CONFLICT STUDIES. CULTURE STUDIES. RELIGIOUS STUDIES.

Issue 1, 2014

CONTENTS

Section PHILOSOPHY
Codes UDC 168 Page 12-20
Title The mechanism and organism: qualitative and qantitative approaches towards nature and man
Author 1 Markov Boris V. St.Petersburg State University
199034, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation;
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
e-mail: bmarkov@mail.ru
Summary The article discusses the role of metaphors of organism and mechanism in science about a man and qualitative and quantitative approaches in philosophy and science. In the New time the principle of sympathy, according to which the world represents an organic whole, all parts of which are connected by a mutual inclination, has yielded to a principle of determinism, according to which the events are connected by rigid interactions. The image of the science based on mechanical-mathematical natural science is exposed to doubt. Hermeneutic and phenomenology are based on substantial intuition, seizing qualitative aspects of life. Logic-analytical, structural and system approaches are based on ontological theory-multiple, quantitative models. Th e article attempts to connect the above mentioned approaches and proposes a model of integrity, in which the discrepancy of life and unity of reason is combined.
Keywords anthropology, knowledge, quality, quantity, mechanism, science, organism, nature, man.