Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 27 No. 2, 2007.
Original scientific paper
Perspectival Comparison
Slavko Amulić
Abstract
This work questions the possibility of comparing the insights of eastern mysticism and modern physical science in a way of Fritjof Capra and also tries to present the problems of stating the methods of once distant cultures as relevant factors in our daily practice. While arguing for such comparison we face a lot of questions: are mysticism and modern physical science on different levels of reality; is there any sense in considering these levels “restricted”; are mysticism and modern physical science operating inside separated realms of reality with non-existent trans-level concepts and relations; – these being only a few questions opened by this perspectival comparison. In the last case, for example, if two realms of reality exist, one is opened to symbolic consciousness and linguistically expressible, and the other one is opened to non symbolic consciousness and linguistically non-expressible. Though this Capra’s approach is in many aspects obscure and questionable in substantive level, it, however, on methodological level completely fits into orientational frame of bioethics as multi-perspectival area.
Keywords
mysticism; physics; holism; reductionism; bioethics; rationalism; ethics; ecology; Fritjof Capra
Hrčak ID:
16992
URI
Publication date:
21.9.2007.
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