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Abstract
The author attempts to advance and substantiate a novel theoretical—cosmist Footnote 1 —approach to reaching the end of integrative universal, truly humane, bio-science.Footnote 2 The work is performed on the original basis of philosophical cosmology, ontology of Absolute Cosmist Wholism, cosmist epistemology, anthropology, and the core principle of CosmoBiotypology. Cosmist theory leads to a person-driven science that is able to integrate subjective and objective knowledge: humankind's personal experience with psychological, biological, and sociological knowledge about the person. In this, the cosmist approach rises to a novel—cosmist functional universal—level of bio-reductionism that relies ultimately on objective scientific knowledge but, at the same time, is primarily person-driven: based on the feelings and perceptions of a person. The core notion of the theory is a person's Basic (Cosmist) Functionality, the realization of which leads to man'sFootnote 3 entire ontogenetic well-being.Footnote 4
Philosophy is a science and therefore, like every other science, it seeks to establish truths that have been strictly proved and are therefore binding for every thinking being and not only for a particular people or nation.—CitationNicolei O. Lossky (1951, p. 402) Footnote 5
I express my profound gratitude to Professor Ervin Laszlo for his invaluable support in the development of the exploration during the last years. I am likewise deeply grateful to Professors Edmund D. Pellegrino of Georgetown University Medical Centre; Giuseppe Benagiano, University la “Sapienza” in Rome; Richard T. Allen, University of Nottingham; Vladimir B. Mouraviev, University of British Columbia; Darryl R. J. Macer, University of Tsukuba, whose continuous support is of immense help to me. Special thanks to Professor Aleksandr V. Kotov, of P. K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Moscow; Professors Georgi S. Arkhipov and Viktor R. Veber, of Novgorod State University after Yaroslav-the-Wise, for their support.
Notes
1 “Cosmist” is a basic term in my theorizing that reflects the subjective (personal, responsible) and universal (in relation to a subject's “Basic Functionality”) integration of a subject (a person) into the surrounding world. The definition of the meaning of the terms “cosmist,” “subject,” and “Basic Functionality” follows in the text. The term cosmist functions in the text both as adjective and noun (mainly as an adjective). The analogy can be drawn with the term “personalist,” which likewise functions both as adjective and noun.
2 The term “bio-science” refers to the science of “bios”—science of the all forms of life existence on Earth: biological, personal, social, ecological, and so on. In this meaning, bio-science is an originally advanced wholistic science that deals universally with any integrated form of life on Earth.
3 The term “man” is traditionally referred to the human race in general, or “mankind.”
4 I treat my other core term, “well-being” as (1) a noun—as a state of being contented, healthy, and so on; and (2) as an adjective—having the sense of “successful, satisfactory, healthy, safe, happy, and so on.”
5 This passage opens the chapter “Characteristic Features of Russian Philosophy” in N. Lossky's book History of Russian Philosophy.
6 I prefer to use the term “wholistic” to discriminate my Cosmist approach from the classic standpoints on holism.
7 In spite of the tremendous achievements of curative medicine, behavioral medicine, and public health care, which refer to the preventing and managing of chronic diseases, but not to their radical treatment.
8 The subject-subject pattern means that an explorer (a subject: scientist, doctor, etc.) treats any phenomenon of the one common evolutionary process of life on Earth (Process) not simply as an object of scientific observation but likewise as the equally (in relation to her/him) integrated—in relation to Process—subject, which (who) has its/his/her own functional assignment and, thus, its/his/her own past and present as emergent future being and well-being. In turn, the characterization of the notion ‘cosmist functional assignment” will follow.
9 The latter shows the evolutionary increase of genes expression, genes divergence, and the comparative amount of genes involved in the control of the higher nervous activity. How can not one remember Plato's “dictatorship of philosophers” as the resolution of ideal social organization?
10 The notion of “presentism” points out that the current Western scientific trends deny the conception of “emergent future” and deal with and explore exclusively the present state of the world's and mankind's being, seeking rational explanations by past causative occasions and factors, and the current teleological motivations of a subject. Reasonably, this phenomenon can form an epistemological conception of “presentism.”