Holistyczno-teologiczne spojrzenie na zjawiska morfogenetyczno-regulacyjne i behawioralne: ogólne refleksje nad znaczeniem pojęć teleologicznych

Dariusz A. Szkutnik; Rafał Kupczak

doi:10.31648/hip.425

Published: 2018-08-181

No. 21 (2015)

Holistic and Theological Look at the Morphogenetic-Regulatory and Behavioral Phenomena. General Reflections on the Meaning of Theological Concepts

Dariusz A. Szkutnik , Rafał Kupczak

Humanities and Natural Sciences

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.425

Abstract

The wholeness o f vital processes, both in internal and external terms, is manifested, according to Aristotle’s terminology, by a substantial living form and is a condition of its purposeful behaviour. Authors claim that empirical data concerning animals tool use, and data concerning regulating processes inside every living organism, cognitively force us to place them within teleological-holistic conceptual frames. According to the authors, teleology requires a renewed revision and specific defining. Although, from one hand, some researchers think that it is an adequate tool used to describe biological purposeful processes, from the other hand it has often been weeded out and replaced by physical concept o f function. Biological functionality intuitively links with the concept o f the wholeness and purposefulness. It should be emphasized, however, that not always the simply physical concept of function may coincide with the concept o f function in a biological sense, in spite of the fact that some relations observed within a living organism might by expressed thanks to a physical concept alone.

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Driesch, Aristotle, entelechy, purposefulness, wholeness, teleology, tool making, tool use

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Szkutnik, D. A., & Kupczak, R. (2018). Holistic and Theological Look at the Morphogenetic-Regulatory and Behavioral Phenomena. General Reflections on the Meaning of Theological Concepts. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (21), 313–330. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.425

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Dariusz A. Szkutnik

Affiliation:

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, University of Warsaw Poland

Rafał Kupczak

Affiliation:

University of Silesia in Katowice, Jesuit University "Ignatianum" in Krakow Poland