, , THE CATEGORIES OF "LIVING" AND "NON-LIVING" IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF SOCIETY AND NATURE INTERACTION // BSU bulletin. Philosophy. - 2019. №3. . - С. 3-15.

THE CATEGORIES OF "LIVING" AND "NON-LIVING" IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF SOCIETY AND NATURE INTERACTION

DOI: 10.18101/1994-0866-2019-3-3-15 UDK: 1: 304

The article studies different forms of mental organization of the scientific and philosophi- cal understanding of nature and attitudes towards it. Upwards the New Age Western Eu- ropean science is developing on the basis of mechanics, or initially the mechanical picture of the world. In such a way, nature turned out to be divided into two parts: non-living na- ture (Earth and the entire outer space), and living nature (animals, people, society, bio- sphere). The world’s existence began to be described by the categories of “non-living” (almost the whole world), and “living” (the life on Earth). A human as an active rational principle began to be considered the conqueror of "non-living" on Earth and in space, the laws of nature by and by began to be studied according to the standards of non-living and attitude to nature became consumer, utilitarian, predatory... As a result, this gave rise to modern global environmental problems and the path to necrosphere. In the article we con- trast the consumer approach to nature with the co-evolutionary approach — a form of sci- entific philosophical knowledge of nature that developed in antiquity and in Russian cos- mism. Here the whole world is a living cosmos, and earthly life is its natural particle, which must exist in harmony with earthly and universal life. Mechanoscience comes into collision with vital science as a form of knowledge about living cosmos. This conception underlies the doctrine of noosphere and the ways of harmonizing human relations with na- ture. We have considered the problem of co-evolutionary development of natural and so- cial systems in the context of new philosophical and scientific theories.

scientific philosophical conception of nature; sociocultural forms; mechano- science; non-living nature; conquest of nature; necrosphere; vital science; harmony with nature; noosphere.