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Culture in an Attempt of the (Non) Contradiction. a Trialectic Nanography of the Human Condition

Victor Untila

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L'art de raisonner consiste a comparer ensemble deux choses par le moyen d'une troisieme.Jean le Rond d'Alembert1. UNIVERSALISM AND LIMITS OF THE CONTRADICTIONThe majority of concepts used by human intellect work in a duality. There is no any human experience whose representation is not thought in terms of dual concepts. Once man became a sapiens species, during all his life he has different situations of interior conflicts, which imply necessarily to make a choice, but this is a very particular choice which supplies dual thinking. A choice that excludes its contrary. After all, this is referred to law of excluded tiers which learns to individualize himself, identifying it through his body, and step by step through ideas about his environment. He has to learn to name and to differentiate. This is a process of learning of being separated, cut, divided in many parts, which will make impression that there is no link between things. Thus, interior conflict, imposed by opposition between body and soul comes out to exterior by force relations, deviation and exhaustion of individual's energies in different conflicts, clash provoking consequently annihilation of these forces.Is duality something natural or is it only representation of natural? Science would free world of tensions, contradictions, but world finds its unity in discordance. The principle of Universal Opposition and its multicolored incarnation at different levels of Reality1 emphasizes genuine scope of contradiction, which rises to rank of creating principles of Universe. After Greeks, entire scientific system was built on fact of opposition todo genere (dualism, dichotomy, polarity, antinomy, antagonism, contradiction, dialectics etc.). Everything goes by contradiction which is not only a subject of Western culture, but also the essence of thinking (C. Noica), the heroic manner of way of thinking the decisive feature of mental history, of human species (H. Jonas).There is no great philosopher who would not have his own dialectics of opposition - from Heraclite to Kant, Hegel, Marx, Aron, Sartre, Berdiaef, Ricoeur, Bachelard, Gonseth, Piaget, Weizsacker, Lupasco, in order to quote some of them, even if others, in opposition, associated whole dialectics to animistic mythology (J. Monod, prix Nobel biologie), to horror (L. Althusser), to imposture (L. Seve).In globalisation epoch, disjunctive and exclusive contradiction of formal logic is a dialectical contradiction in which contraries complement each other, interpenetrate, change from one to another and found together a unity in motion, continuous, changing and full of potentials. It is provided by fact that these poles found dynamic interactions through which conservation laws and emerging structures had appeared. This dialectical philosophy represents issue of scientific discoveries by themselves and not by any a priori.The human civilization did not know democratic process of cultures clash, according to disjunctive and forced logic, frequently, there are conquests, invasions, features of slavery, persecutions (political, religious), wars, colonization etc. Also, this logic has led to following types of intercultural relations: 1) isolation and ignorance where every culture lived within its own established limits and problem of interculturalism was closed; 2) indifference and disdain when contact became inevitable and another culture was considered as an nonoffensive rival; 3) conviction and conquest when relations become more stable and durable and another culture becomes a threat against which it should react. According to these relations, cultures clash was considered to be rather a rhetorical and/ or ideological problematic, democracy of future (Derrida) which didn't find itself in concern of human sciences. …

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L'art de raisonner consiste a comparer ensemble deux choses par le moyen d'une troisieme.Jean le Rond d'Alembert1. UNIVERSALISM AND LIMITS OF THE CONTRADICTIONThe majority of concepts used by human intellect work in a duality. There is no any human experience whose representation is not thought in terms of dual concepts. Once man became a sapiens species, during all his life he has different situations of interior conflicts, which imply necessarily to make a choice, but this is a very particular choice which supplies dual thinking. A choice that excludes its contrary. After all, this is referred to law of excluded tiers which learns to individualize himself, identifying it through his body, and step by step through ideas about his environment. He has to learn to name and to differentiate. This is a process of learning of being separated, cut, divided in many parts, which will make impression that there is no link between things. Thus, interior conflict, imposed by opposition between body and soul comes out to exterior by force relations, deviation and exhaustion of individual's energies in different conflicts, clash provoking consequently annihilation of these forces.Is duality something natural or is it only representation of natural? Science would free world of tensions, contradictions, but world finds its unity in discordance. The principle of Universal Opposition and its multicolored incarnation at different levels of Reality1 emphasizes genuine scope of contradiction, which rises to rank of creating principles of Universe. After Greeks, entire scientific system was built on fact of opposition todo genere (dualism, dichotomy, polarity, antinomy, antagonism, contradiction, dialectics etc.). Everything goes by contradiction which is not only a subject of Western culture, but also the essence of thinking (C. Noica), the heroic manner of way of thinking the decisive feature of mental history, of human species (H. Jonas).There is no great philosopher who would not have his own dialectics of opposition - from Heraclite to Kant, Hegel, Marx, Aron, Sartre, Berdiaef, Ricoeur, Bachelard, Gonseth, Piaget, Weizsacker, Lupasco, in order to quote some of them, even if others, in opposition, associated whole dialectics to animistic mythology (J. Monod, prix Nobel biologie), to horror (L. Althusser), to imposture (L. Seve).In globalisation epoch, disjunctive and exclusive contradiction of formal logic is a dialectical contradiction in which contraries complement each other, interpenetrate, change from one to another and found together a unity in motion, continuous, changing and full of potentials. It is provided by fact that these poles found dynamic interactions through which conservation laws and emerging structures had appeared. This dialectical philosophy represents issue of scientific discoveries by themselves and not by any a priori.The human civilization did not know democratic process of cultures clash, according to disjunctive and forced logic, frequently, there are conquests, invasions, features of slavery, persecutions (political, religious), wars, colonization etc. Also, this logic has led to following types of intercultural relations: 1) isolation and ignorance where every culture lived within its own established limits and problem of interculturalism was closed; 2) indifference and disdain when contact became inevitable and another culture was considered as an nonoffensive rival; 3) conviction and conquest when relations become more stable and durable and another culture becomes a threat against which it should react. According to these relations, cultures clash was considered to be rather a rhetorical and/ or ideological problematic, democracy of future (Derrida) which didn't find itself in concern of human sciences. …

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L'art de raisonner consiste a comparer ensemble deux choses par le moyen d'une troisieme.Jean le Rond d'Alembert1. UNIVERSALISM AND LIMITS OF THE CONTRADICTIONThe majority of concepts used by human intellect work in a duality. There is no any human experience whose representation is not thought in terms of dual concepts. Once man became a sapiens species, during all his life he has different situations of interior conflicts, which imply necessarily to make a choice, but this is a very particular choice which supplies dual thinking. A choice that excludes its contrary. After all, this is referred to law of excluded tiers which learns to individualize himself, identifying it through his body, and step by step through ideas about his environment. He has to learn to name and to differentiate. This is a process of learning of being separated, cut, divided in many parts, which will make impression that there is no link between things. Thus, interior conflict, imposed by opposition between body and soul comes out to exterior by force relations, deviation and exhaustion of individual's energies in different conflicts, clash provoking consequently annihilation of these forces.Is duality something natural or is it only representation of natural? Science would free world of tensions, contradictions, but world finds its unity in discordance. The principle of Universal Opposition and its multicolored incarnation at different levels of Reality1 emphasizes genuine scope of contradiction, which rises to rank of creating principles of Universe. After Greeks, entire scientific system was built on fact of opposition todo genere (dualism, dichotomy, polarity, antinomy, antagonism, contradiction, dialectics etc.). Everything goes by contradiction which is not only a subject of Western culture, but also the essence of thinking (C. Noica), the heroic manner of way of thinking the decisive feature of mental history, of human species (H. Jonas).There is no great philosopher who would not have his own dialectics of opposition - from Heraclite to Kant, Hegel, Marx, Aron, Sartre, Berdiaef, Ricoeur, Bachelard, Gonseth, Piaget, Weizsacker, Lupasco, in order to quote some of them, even if others, in opposition, associated whole dialectics to animistic mythology (J. Monod, prix Nobel biologie), to horror (L. Althusser), to imposture (L. Seve).In globalisation epoch, disjunctive and exclusive contradiction of formal logic is a dialectical contradiction in which contraries complement each other, interpenetrate, change from one to another and found together a unity in motion, continuous, changing and full of potentials. It is provided by fact that these poles found dynamic interactions through which conservation laws and emerging structures had appeared. This dialectical philosophy represents issue of scientific discoveries by themselves and not by any a priori.The human civilization did not know democratic process of cultures clash, according to disjunctive and forced logic, frequently, there are conquests, invasions, features of slavery, persecutions (political, religious), wars, colonization etc. Also, this logic has led to following types of intercultural relations: 1) isolation and ignorance where every culture lived within its own established limits and problem of interculturalism was closed; 2) indifference and disdain when contact became inevitable and another culture was considered as an nonoffensive rival; 3) conviction and conquest when relations become more stable and durable and another culture becomes a threat against which it should react. According to these relations, cultures clash was considered to be rather a rhetorical and/ or ideological problematic, democracy of future (Derrida) which didn't find itself in concern of human sciences. …

Key concepts: Opposition (politics), Contradiction, Epistemology, Soul, Greeks, Philosophy, Intellect, Sociology

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