The essence of "living" in the context of neo-classical understanding

• Autores: Anton Sergeevich Krasnov, Gennadij Pavlovich Menchikov
• Localización: QUID: Investigación, Ciencia y Tecnología, ISSN-e 2462-9006, ISSN 1692-343X, Nº. Extra 1, 2017, págs. 734-738
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The world outlook of mankind begins to change fundamentally, the epoch of neoclassicism / postmodernism is over, when the “mirror of the world” in which man saw himself has been shattered. In comparison with the classical and the non-classical the emerging modern neoclassical type of understanding of the world and thinking brings major and unusual changes to the problem of the essence of the living, which for the first time actually becomes new and relevant. Since everything that is alive, especially its “genesis”, is a problem of problems projecting the other ones, it has to be dealt with. Reductionism, vitalism, irrationalism, particularly creationism, have little to give in the fundamental understanding of the essence of living. In the previous types of philosophy and particular sciences - in the classical and the non-classical - the scholars cover various aspects of the essence of the living, that is, material, structural and functional. They  have already discovered many of its essential features, but with the fragmented aspects of the analysis of the essence of living, that living does not admit of itself by definition, in our opinion, little attention is paid to the essence of the first order: to the self-causality of the living and its agenesis, hence to its non-epiphenomenality and non-originality in being, as well as to the assertion of existence of an absolutely inanimate, without even posing the question of the origin of the latter. Note that any manual does not comprise the definition of “living” or it is identified with the concept of “life”. The central aim of this article is to try to reconsider the basic foundation of the essence of living and its agenesis-eternity, from the standpoint of the modern neoclassical worldview, paying special attention to the study of the phenomenon of self-causality of living and its non-epiphenomenal status, which has been reserved for it so far (“living has emerged, it originates from non-living”). Our worldview and methodological basis are: the modern neoclassical stage of the development of philosophy, the methodology of realistic and transdisciplinary approaches, the comparative and hermeneutic methods of cognition.