The schism in postnonclassical rationality

Abstract

Ontological, epistemological, socio-practical, and ethical aspects demonstrate the impossibility of the coexistence of the complex idea of human dimensionality with the complex idea of nonlinearity in the “hard core” of postnonclassical research programs. The idea of human dimensionality, which necessarily has a real paradigmatic status in postnonclassical science, seriously limits the worldview ideas of nonlinearity in favor of linear concepts. The claim of the worldview of nonlinearity to paradigmatic status in postnonclassics leads to the loss of compatibility of this idea with the idea of human dimensionality, which demonstrates the groundlessness of this claim. In the ontological aspect, the human being is seen as a result and a condition for the continuation of a linear world process. The epistemological aspect notes the insufficiency of any reductionist cognitive strategy to ensure the unity of human knowledge, and states the immaturity of the current state of social synergetics. In the socio-practical aspect, the project as the main type of linear activity, which occupies a central place in human culture, is opposed to the game as the main type of non-linear activity. At the same time, the anti-project nature of reliance on nonlinear processes is noted. In the ethical aspect, the incompatibility of postnonclassical rationality with ethical relativism, naturally arising from the claim of the idea of nonlinearity to paradigmatic status, is considered. Present in the “hard core” of the postnonclassical research programs the complex idea of human dimensionality can be protected by different elements of the “protective belt”: on the one hand, either by the emphasis on the study of linear processes or by the emphasis on the study of nonlinear processes (using a “soft,” non-paradigmatic variant of the idea of nonlinearity); on the other hand, either by means of synergetics, or by means of concrete-universal dialectics.