scholarly journals The Place of God in the Natural Science Picture of the World by I. Newton

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-203
Author(s):  
Gennady P. Otyutsky ◽  

The author reveals the peculiarities of the methodological approach of I. Newton, which follows from the specifics of understanding the place of God in the natural science picture of the world of the great scientist. His ideas about God, as well as the religious ideas of Kepler, Descartes, and Leibniz, became the methodological basis for a number of epistemological principles, the use of which contributed to outstanding discoveries in natural science. These discoveries, in turn, formed the content of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. Among such principles is a “multifunctional” understanding of the role of God: as the creator of the world, as the foundation of the harmony of the world, as the source of the immutability of the laws of nature, as the root cause of movement, etc. The author demonstrates a regularity: the existence of problems in natural science, which in this state of science cannot be solved exclusively by scientific methods, leads to gaps in the holistic natural science picture of the world. In such a situation, the “God hypothesis” not only helps to fill such gaps, but can be considered as a special epistemological tool.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Gennady P. Otyutskiy

The aim is to use examples of Leibnizian and Newtonian works to demonstrate the notion that, under certain conditions, the concept of God can function as a methodological tool for constructing an integral worldview. A content analysis of the texts of Leibniz and Newton was conducted to identify the role of God. The comparative analysis allowed the author to reveal similar aspects in these visions. The differences between Leibniz and Newton are profound, but what unites them is the diversity of their interests and their outstanding roles in the discovery of the analysis of infinitesimals. Natural science problems that could not be solved in the 17th century by exclusively scientific methods led to gaps in the complete view of the world. The concept of God not only made it possible to fill in such gaps, but also served as an instrument of research itself.


Author(s):  
Zhanna V. Chashina

Introduction. The problem of the search for the ways of understanding of the picture of the world and, as a consequence, the development of an approach to the social management is relevant for all times of the existence of mankind. A human is basically a biological phenomenon, therefore, the natural order should be regarded as the basis of the social order. Having in mind this formulation of the question, it becomes necessary to analyze modern concepts of natural science in understanding not only ontological vision of human society, but also developing new ways of its understanding. Materials and Methods. The theoretical and methodological approach was based on the concepts of natural science including the theories of evolutionism, quantum mechanics and synergetics. Using the model transfer of these theories to the idea of social development, the author proposes the methodology based on the principle of interdependence of the theories analyzed in the article. Results. An analysis within the framework of the described theories has shown that according to the evolutionary model, progress is assumed to be taken for granted. Linear scenarios are useful only at the stage of forecasting and provoke a passivity of existence, which leads to deadlocks in development. In the synergetic model, society is represented as a complex open system characterized by opposite trends: destruction, manifesting itself as entropy, and creation, or negentropy. Progress depends on changes that help to survive. If the synergistic picture of the world appears in the form of an order that is formed from chaos, then in a quantum one – society is chaos in the originally existing order. Consequently, the presence of a goal-oriented vector compels a person to move towards the restoration of the system, in particular society, to its initial or even higher level of organization. Discussion and Conclusion. A progressive evolutionary model is manifested in the form of successful adaptation, synergetic combines the idea of evolutionism with the idea of multivariance of the historical process. The quantum approach continues the idea of multivariance, but unlike classical synergetics, it assumes a goal-oriented nature of development. In fact, these approaches do not express contradiction, but the disclosure of the multidimensional development of being, therefore, it is necessary to take into account their interdependence, which allows a more productive cognition of reality in order to manage it.


Author(s):  
Viktor S. Levytskyy ◽  

The subject of the article is the process of forming ideas about the world as reality, which is most accurately described by the word “invention”. The author, relying on classical texts in this respect (E. Husserl, M. Heidegger) and modern studies (A. Makushinsky, J.-F. Kurtin) substantiates the position according to which the idea of reality is not a cultural invariant. The notion that reality has always existed, and thanks to scientific reason has been most adequately reflected, understood and described, is a significant modernization. This has been evidenced by both the etymology of the concepts of “reality” and “reality”, which first appeared only in scholasticism (D. Scotus, M. Eckhart), and the process of their content filling, which is inextricably linked with the formation of scientific rationality. The article shows that both the scientific mind and the integral image of the world created by it, which we call reality, genetically date back to the Christian value-semantic universe. Initially, it was within the framework of the discourse of natural theology that the image of the autonomous world has been conceptualized, developing according to the universal principles established by God. In the first scientific programs (R. Descartes, G. Galilei, I. Newton), these ideas were continued, as a result of which the world began to be understood as an immanent reality that is subject to the laws of nature. The new ontological beliefs received the ultimate philosophical foundation in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, to whom the phenomenal world exhausts the reality available to man. Accordingly, the world turns into a one-dimensional detranscendentalized reality. This methodological approach allows the author to make the following conclusions: 1) the image of world “reality” is a rather modern “invention”, which was unknown in previous eras; 2) at the same time, it is genetically connected with the Christian semantic universe, outside of which it could not appear; 3) the world in it is understood as a one-dimensional immanent reality.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
Joanna Kulczewska

The Polish edition of the comic book adaptation of Salammbô – towards editorial and peritextual study The author of this paper discusses the problem of peritextual and editorial issues, using the French 19th century novel Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert as an example. The following study consistsof peritextual analysis of the Polish version of Druillet’s comic book adaptation, which is the object ofthis research. The methodological approach is based on semiotic analysis. Umberto Eco’s conceptsof model reader and closed/opened texts are also applied. The aim of this paper is to define the role of editorial peritexts of literary comic book adaptations in the world of mass media.


Author(s):  
Steven Nadler

Nicolas Malebranche, a French Catholic theologian, was the most important Cartesian philosopher of the second half of the seventeenth century. His philosophical system was a grand synthesis of the thought of his two intellectual mentors: Augustine and Descartes. His most important work, De la recherche de la vérité (The Search After Truth), is a wide-ranging opus that covers various topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, physics, the physiology of cognition, and philosophical theology. It was both admired and criticized by many of the most celebrated thinkers of the period (including Leibniz, Arnauld and Locke), and was the focus of several fierce and time-consuming public debates. Malebranche’s philosophical reputation rests mainly on three doctrines. Occasionalism – of which he is the most systematic and famous exponent – is a theory of causation according to which God is the only genuine causal agent in the universe; all physical and mental events in nature are merely ‘occasions’ for God to exercise his necessarily efficacious power. In the doctrine known as ‘vision in God’, Malebranche argues that the representational ideas that function in human knowledge and perception are, in fact, the ideas in God’s understanding, the eternal archetypes or essences of things. And in his theodicy, Malebranche justifies God’s ways and explains the existence of evil and sin in the world by appealing to the simplicity and universality of the laws of nature and grace that God has established and is compelled to follow. In all three doctrines, Malebranche’s overwhelming concern is to demonstrate the essential and active role of God in every aspect – material, cognitive and moral – of the universe.


Author(s):  
Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Gerard Martorell ◽  
Liang Xu ◽  
Yong Liu

At the present time, various ambitious nations laid out their plans for maintaining or acquiring their leadership in the world by emphasizing innovations and by focusing on the manufacturing sector. To understand this phenomenon theoretically, this paper addresses the importance of the manufacturing sector in the overall development of a nation's economic strength. By employing systems thinking and such a logical reasoning that is commonly used in mathematics and natural science, this paper establishes three formal propositions on related issues and provides policy recommendations and open problems for future research.


2016 ◽  
Vol 371 (1696) ◽  
pp. 20150166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Pyne

For most of human history, fire has been a pervasive presence in human life, and so also in human thought. This essay examines the ways in which fire has functioned intellectually in Western civilization as mythology, as religion, as natural philosophy and as modern science. The great phase change occurred with the development of industrial combustion; fire faded from quotidian life, which also removed it from the world of informing ideas. Beginning with the discovery of oxygen, fire as an organizing concept fragmented into various subdisciplines of natural science and forestry. The Anthropocene, however, may revive the intellectual role of fire as an informing idea or at least a narrative conceit. This article is part of the themed issue ‘The interaction of fire and mankind’.


Author(s):  
Elena N. Dzyatkovskaya ◽  

The article deals with the role of science education in explaining the modern environmental crisis and ways out of it. The urgency and peculiarities of education for sustainable development, its challenges to updating the content of natural science disciplines are considered. The directions of such updating are justified: reflection of modern state of science, fundamentality of knowledge, its interdisciplinary integration and worldview orientation. The conclusion is made that for understanding the interdisciplinary concept of sustainable development the set of special scientific pictures of the world is not enough. The problem of developing a natural-science picture of the world as an environmental component of education for sustainable development is posed. The article considers the basic categories of synthesis of natural-science knowledge into the natural-science picture of the world: nature, material unity of the world, development, system, self-organization, determinism, etc. It is determined that the natural scientific picture of the world, in its ecological aspect, is based on V. I. Vernadsky’s doctrine on the biosphere and biogeochemical migration of atoms, N. N. Moiseev’s doctrine on universal evolutionism, and the concept of sustainable development. It is concluded about the role of the natural sciences in the formation of the key concept of sustainable development – the ecological imperative.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marica Mazurek

During the COVID 2019 outbreak countries in the world reacted to the epidemic situation differently. These discrepancies were based on the cultural differences and the reactions of public sector to deal organizationally and financially with these negative externalities, which can damage also tourism businesses. In this book chapter has been explained the differences in the reactions of Eastern cultures and Western cultures and their hierarchical approach to the decision-making process. The methodological approach to this book chapter and its content is based on the use of concepts rooted in the studies of applied models of crisis management and the application of several case studies from Europe, Asia and North America, where has been discussed the preparedness of public sector to bear a risk and to act effectively during COVID-19 outbreak. A discussion comprises cultural differences and their impact on health situation and the role of media as well as the organizational learning culture.


Think ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (56) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Peter Atkins
Keyword(s):  

This article explores the nature and intellectual argument for naturalism and its dependent attitude, materialism. It touches on some of the alternatives but argues that they are inferior approaches to the manner in which knowledge and understanding are obtained. It extends the argument by touching on two subsidiary questions: the role of mathematics in describing the world and the origin of the laws of Nature.


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