Publication details
Antropocentrismus a pojetí "chaosu" a řádu".
| Title in English | Anthropocentrism and the Concept of "Chaos" and an "Order" |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 1999 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Nosek, Jiří - Stachová, Jiřina, ed.: Chaos, věda a filosofie. |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | anthropocentrism; chaos; order; communication |
| Description | The study deals with the problem of relationship between anthropocentrism and knowledge reached in the ancient world, and with the question to which extend anthropocentrism affected the conception of "chaos" and an "order", as depicted in the mythical cosmogonical stories/tales of the most developed ancient cultural areas. Chaos and an order became frequent heroes and instruments of knowledge both in the ancient and Judaic stories / tales and ancient Egyptian, Indian and Chinese cosmogonical stories/tales. They give concrete form to a more general constructional principles: centristic attitudes and anthropomorphic polarity, dichotomy and symmetry. Anthropocentrism appears, together with logocentrism, lingvocentrism and sensuocentrism, to be a general constructional element of the human world - cosmogonical stories/tales, the world of the gods and metaphysics, and also the world of animate and inanimate nature and the world of social relationships and institutions. Chaos in the ancient cultural paradigms existed beyond reach of rationality, became a category by means of which a man began to realize the limits of his cognitive, constructional and partially creative abilities. Certain substantial changes in the conception of "chaos" came in the post-Modern times, when e.g. the discoveries of fractal geometry, fuzzy set theory and theory of chaos revealed the order of chaos. |