CRITICAL ESSAY OF SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY OF KARL POPPER. III (Kriticheski ocherk philosophiyi Karla Poppera.III)

• Authors: Khramova Victoriya L.
• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

The model of the universe, offered by K.Popper, is discussed, which is represented by the generically uniform 'three worlds'. 'World 1' is the world of physical phenomena at micro, macro and mega levels. 'World 2' is the world of mental, or psychic, conditions, that is, subjective conditions of the consciousness, when each human builds his/her specific world and inhabits therein, and the diversity of personal ideas and beliefs raises the problem of mutual understanding. 'World 3' is the world of the objective content of thought and its products (problems, hypotheses, theories, projects etc.); the world of collective knowledge, overcoming the enmity of subjective worlds and individual constraints. 'World 3' contains 'self' as a self-conscious consciousness, e.g. the consciousness capable to transcend from the psycho-physic world level of 'world 2' to 'word 3', the consciousness as the highest attributive characteristic of the matter which in its spontaneous emergent self-development becomes really predisposed to self-comprehension. Not denying the organic link of the human spirituality with brain processes, K.Popper insists on the reality of 'self' as the set of human thoughts, feelings, intellectual inclinations, emotional experiences, hopes and distresses, happiness and grief. 'Self' is a human per se. Views of K.Popper are compared with ones of Hegel, Frege, Heidegger. In conclusion, a general appraisal of K.Popper's conceptions is given.

Keywords

EN

'INHABITANTS' OF 'WORLD 3'; 'WORD 1'; 'WORLD 2'; 'WORLD 3'; EMERGENT METAPHYSICS; SELF

• Publisher: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, G. M. Dobrov Center for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies; Kiev, [e-mail]
• Journal: Nauka ta naukoznavstvo (Science and Science of Science)
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 34-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Khramova Victoriya L.

• Victoriya L. Khramova

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11UAAAAA09544