Humanity and Ontology |
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| Author:
| Herczog, Houston |
| ISBN: | 979-8-3667-1604-8 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2022 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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Humanity and Ontology is an attempt to define the essential character of nature itself, both of humanity and the material world. The natural world is irreducibly relational. The existence of relations is suggested by contemporary physics. This is of great importance in giving the simplest interpretation of scientific theories generally and in forging a theory of reality. The nature of man is given by his biology, and his essence is given by the workings of his mind. Our...
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Humanity and Ontology is an attempt to define the essential character of nature itself, both of humanity and the material world. The natural world is irreducibly relational. The existence of relations is suggested by contemporary physics. This is of great importance in giving the simplest interpretation of scientific theories generally and in forging a theory of reality. The nature of man is given by his biology, and his essence is given by the workings of his mind. Our nature is as both social and biological animals, and the connection between biology and collective behavior is the key to understanding the nature of the human mind. With the assistance of diverse fields of science mankind can be understood. Together these fields converge upon the single claim that the human mind has innate content.
The structural reality of nature has an important consequence for human inquiry, and this relates to us by means of our own nature. Innate content is the limit to human knowledge, and the overall pattern of knowledge captures the relational structure of the world rather than its inherent content. For this reason thought is man's innate potential and also his congenital limitation, and the overall success he has at inquiry is a matter of closer approximation to the ultimate structure of the natural world. Humanity has its only chance at true knowledge as a collective entity. The collective nature of knowledge is a consequence of the social nature of mind, the innate character of human concepts, and the structural reality of nature over and above the content of specific theoretic formulations.