Autor: Purcell, Brendan M.

Buch: The Drama of Humanity

Titel: The Drama of Humanity

Stichwort: Schichten, Entwicklung, Verbindung

Kurzinhalt: Deutung des Zusammenhangs d. verschiedenen Schichten: Evolution, Aristoteles (Voegelin), Lonergan, emergent probability, material emergence, formal transformation, existence, finality

Textausschnitt: () There are several frameworks which have tried to articulate the link between the various levels. At present, the two most common are the anthropic principle and neo-Darwinian evolutionism. However, both seem to run the danger of a kind of reductionist determinism, in which the lower levels are the most real ones, and the later levels simply expressions of implications to be found within the lower levels.
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() These tiers of the hierarchy of being are related to each other in: (a) the material dependence of the higher on the lower and (b) the [formal] organization of the lower by the higher ones. The relations are not reversible.
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... 'emergent probability.' Its openness is due to its radically non-deductive nature, accepting as a matter of fact that lower aggregates of existence make materially possible the emergence of the next level, but neither explain it nor necessitate it.
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Some of the most obvious 'principles' that emerge from such an inquiry are those of the principle of material emergence-the fact of matter occurring at various levels of complexity; of formal transformation-the fact that each level of matter up to the matter in human beings, is transformed in order to serve the requirements of the next highest level; of existence-the fact that each level, and the entire sequence of levels, as a matter of contingent, non-necessary and non-deductive fact, exists; and of finality-the fact that an immanent, contingent dynamism can be discerned in the sequence of higher integrations of the lower levels.