Papers by ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ
Varieties of Sacrifice in States of Exception
Revolt and Revolution: Reaching for the Possible
Abstract The strong connection between exceptions and sacrifices is examined in the bellow lines.... more Abstract The strong connection between exceptions and sacrifices is examined in the bellow lines. From the philosophical point of view the passage from mythos to logos is based on the rationalization of sacrificational practices and the introduced by the author sacrificational theorem plays the crucial role in this threshold. In the scientific level of examination, in social and natural sciences, the problem of revolutionary changes is examined, taking the notion of exception as a guiding concept combined with the problem of sacrifice, in its various facets. In social sciences it is founded on the connection between ritual theory and sacrificational practices combined with the exceptional states that exist in revolts or revolutions. In the natural sciences, sacrificational theorem acts as the ‘nuclear reactor’ of the rationalized abstractive process, being the main cause for the emergence of new categories, having the form of the particular relations between theory- experiment-measurement process of every discipline. Key Words: Exception, emergency, sacrifice, categoriogenesis, ritual, sacrification theorem.
Varieties of Sacrifice in States of Exception
The strong connection between exceptions and sacrifices is examined in the bellow lines. From the... more The strong connection between exceptions and sacrifices is examined in the bellow lines. From the philosophical point of view the passage from mythos to logos is based on the rationalization of sacrificational practices and the introduced by the author sacrificational theorem plays the crucial role in this threshold. In the scientific level of examination, in social and natural sciences, the problem of revolutionary changes is examined, taking the notion of exception as a guiding concept combined with the problem of sacrifice, in its various facets. In social sciences it is founded on the connection between ritual theory and sacrificational practices combined with the exceptional states that exist in revolts or revolutions. In the natural sciences, sacrificational theorem acts as the ‘nuclear reactor’ of the rationalized abstractive process, being the main cause for the emergence of new categories, having the form of the particular relations between theory- experiment-measurement pr...
Varieties of Sacrifice in States of Exception
The strong connection between exceptions and sacrifices is examined in the bellow lines. From the... more The strong connection between exceptions and sacrifices is examined in the bellow lines. From the philosophical point of view the passage from mythos to logos is based on the rationalization of sacrificational practices and the introduced by the author sacrificational theorem plays the crucial role in this threshold. In the scientific level of examination, in social and natural sciences, the problem of revolutionary changes is examined, taking the notion of exception as a guiding concept combined with the problem of sacrifice, in its various facets. In social sciences it is founded on the connection between ritual theory and sacrificational practices combined with the exceptional states that exist in revolts or revolutions. In the natural sciences, sacrificational theorem acts as the ‘nuclear reactor’ of the rationalized abstractive process, being the main cause for the emergence of new categories, having the form of the particular relations between theory- experiment-measurement pr...
The problem of the Baconian difference between the collection of information and its handling is ... more The problem of the Baconian difference between the collection of information and its handling is examined within the construction of Bacon's Art of Transmission: a basic incommensurability is emerging between the collection according to Arts and the classification according to the different Bodies examined. This duality of sorting is passing to the duality concept of the domains of his ontological research, as Bacon is trying to construct an experimental science against any speculative considerations. Thus we are facing a dual ontology of materiality which is based on dual information. Baconian informatics is examined within the discussion of modern theoretic concepts and additive versus non-additive probability schemes that have hitherto introduced in Baconian studies. Keywords: ciphers, encoding, information, intelligence, tramsmission, non-additive probability
Gesture protocols in interspecies communication is examined in the present paper. The logic of ge... more Gesture protocols in interspecies communication is examined in the present paper. The logic of gesture non verbal communication is found to be determined by the mixing of Aristotelian natural deduction and the theory of categorical motives of recent research advances in Category Theory. Protocols and Schemes are examined in the game theoretic interaction with light rays and substances with mass. It is found that certain conditions of the topology of the beings which exchange gesture protocols pose certain conditions to the language and the gestures they use. This gesture Homotopy poses the inverse problem of finding the properties of directional topoi which orchestrate surrounding masses with boundary. Certain inequalities are satisfied if the species belong to the same planet or different planets. Aristotelian Astrolinguistics’s protocols are proven to be the more universal protocols for communication since they satisfy certain structural conditions of global homotopy types of gesture.
Suggested bibliography:
Athanasios Christacopoulos, Aristotelian Informatics: Between Foundation and Organization, Proceedings of the World Congress “Aristotle 2400 Years” Εdited by: Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, Aristotle University οf Thessaloniki, Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies, A.U.Th ., 2019, p. 814-820.
Alexander Ollongren, Astrolinguistics. Design of a Linguistic System for
Interstellar Communication Based on Logic, Springer New York Heidelberg, 2013.
Suggested bibliography:
Athanasios Christacopoulos, Aristotelian Informatics: Between Foundation and Organization, Proceedings of the World Congress “Aristotle 2400 Years” Εdited by: Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, Aristotle University οf Thessaloniki, Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies, A.U.Th ., 2019, p. 814-820.
Alexander Ollongren, Astrolinguistics. Design of a Linguistic System for
Interstellar Communication Based on Logic, Springer New York Heidelberg, 2013.
The process of free thinking through argumentation schemes, which gave modern scientific thought ... more The process of free thinking through argumentation schemes, which gave modern scientific thought the power of proof, truth and experimentation, begins with the Pre-Socratic philosophy. It is from this first period that Democritus and other Greek philosophers conceived the process of deduction which gives from certain premises, certain conclusions. This kind of transformation is conceived at the same time in the interaction pictures of the physical processes where first elements interact between themselves giving different results, according strict combinations, presenting thus, the hierarchy of the physical world. Aristotle gave a systematic presentation of this duality, describing ways of such interactive schemes in the logical level and in the natural world. Through the Arabic Aristotelians, this trend of thought was classified, transformed, enhanced, became more rigorous, and held a philosophical status that gave humanity the scientific tools for the modern scientific method. The first part of this article presents the current status of the modern connection between argumentation schemes, Feynman diagrams, cobordism and nuclear interaction processes, which has begun from the early 1990’s. The second part examines the Greek-Arabic philosophical and scientific influence on this program and traces the elements of this tradition that are still alive today in order to promote scientific knowledge.
The process of free thinking through argumentation schemes, which gave modern scientific thought ... more The process of free thinking through argumentation schemes, which gave modern scientific thought the power of proof, truth and experimentation, begins with the Pre-Socratic philosophy. It is from this first period that Democritus and other Greek philosophers conceived the process of deduction which gives from certain premises, certain conclusions. This kind of transformation is conceived at the same time in the interaction pictures of the physical processes where first elements interact between themselves giving different results, according strict combinations, presenting thus, the hierarchy of the physical world. Aristotle gave a systematic presentation of this duality, describing ways of such interactive schemes in the logical level and in the natural world. Through the Arabic Aristotelians, this trend of thought was classified, transformed, enhanced, became more rigorous, and held a philosophical status that gave humanity the scientific tools for the modern scientific method. The first part of this article presents the current status of the modern connection between argumentation schemes, Feynman diagrams, cobordism and nuclear interaction processes, which has begun from the early 1990’s. The second part examines the Greek-Arabic philosophical and scientific influence on this program and traces the elements of this tradition that are still alive today in order to promote scientific knowledge.
It is known from the pioneering work of Stone1 that the topological spaces that have his name are... more It is known from the pioneering work of Stone1 that the topological spaces that have his name are a) completely disconnected, b) Hausdorffian, and c) compact. Let an arbitrary set W which is non-empty, and the simple set {0, 1}. The set {0, 1} W of all the functions S from W to {0, 1}, is a Stone space. We consider then the Robbins algebra with its elements as the elements of the above set W Theorem: Every Robbins algebra is isomorphic to the dual algebra of its associated Stone space
In the Appendix of the author's recent work on Aristotelian Informatics 1 , there was proven an i... more In the Appendix of the author's recent work on Aristotelian Informatics 1 , there was proven an interesting connection between the concept of identity within Robbins algebra and the identity turn of elementary particles according to the Dirac homotopy: they both need a total 720 o turn in order to return from where they started according each ones' environment, the logical one and the ontological one. Furthermore, if the initial condition for the Robbins algebra equation is considered a proposition x which enters in an environment with propositions y, then the identity transformation, considered as a congruence process, needs a total 720 o turn (formal logic). But if the initial condition for the Robbins algebra equation is considered a proposition x which enters in an environment where both propositions y and their negations ¬y hold, then the identity transformation, considered as a congruence process, needs a total 540 o turn (intuitionistic logic). This is a more rational way of considering the problem with logics where some propositions and their negations might hold true at the same time; this is because of the more rational consideration of the identity principle as a process which needs always an environment in order to have meaning as a congruence process.
ALAN TURING'S ''ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS WITH AN APPPLICATION TO ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM''
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES: THANOS CHRISTACOPOULOS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES: THANOS CHRISTACOPOULOS
ALAN TURING'S
ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS WITH AN APPPLICATION TO ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM
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ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS WITH AN APPPLICATION TO ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES: THANOS CHRISTACOPOULOS
ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS WITH AN APPPLICATION TO ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES: THANOS CHRISTACOPOULOS
This is the forward of the greek translation of Jozeph de Maistre's work ELUCIDATION ON SACRIFICE... more This is the forward of the greek translation of Jozeph de Maistre's work ELUCIDATION ON SACRIFICES Eclaircissement sur les Sacrifices (1821)by Constantinos Lazaris (translator) and Thanos Christacopoulos (ed.)
Spectral analysis is examined in a historical manner as a scientific discipline of physico-mathem... more Spectral analysis is examined in a historical manner as a scientific discipline of physico-mathematical structures that have arisen for the last three centures. Epistemological considerations are also introduced within the authors suggested ''triadic projective ontology'' of Kant's Darstellung ; resolution and perturbation are found to be treated with the same inner conceptual language, and the modern concept of information spectrum is examined in the classical and quantum contexts.
Λογική και ηθική θεωρούνται πολύ συχνά διαχωρισμένες μεταξύ τους , αν όχι και σε κάποια αντίθεση.... more Λογική και ηθική θεωρούνται πολύ συχνά διαχωρισμένες μεταξύ τους , αν όχι και σε κάποια αντίθεση. Όμως πολλοί μεγάλοι λογικοί συμπεριλαμβανομένων των Αριστοτέλη, Ockham, Bolzano, De Morgan και Russell, πραγματοποίησαν οξυδερκείς συμβολές στην ηθική και στην μελέτη των ηρωικών πράξεων που θεμελιώνονται στην ηθική ενόραση. Παρομοίως, πολλοί υποδειγματικοί ηθικιστές, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των Σωκράτη, Πλάτωνα, Καντ, Μίλ, Γκάντι και Μάρτιν Λούθερ Κινγκ, έδειξαν με τις διδασκαλίες και τις πράξεις τους μια βαθιά προσήλωση στην αντικειμενικότητα, την ηθική αξία που υποκινεί την λογική και υπηρετείται από την λογική. Το παρόν άρθρο διερευνά τον ρόλο της λογικής στην ηθική και τον ρόλο της ηθικής στην λογική.
Η κριτική σκέψη εμπλέκει μια προμελετημένη εφαρμογή ελέγχων και σταθμίσεων σε πεποιθήσεις per se ... more Η κριτική σκέψη εμπλέκει μια προμελετημένη εφαρμογή ελέγχων και σταθμίσεων σε πεποιθήσεις per se και σε μεθόδουυς που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για την κατάληξη σε τέτοιες πεποιθήσεις. Η παιδαγωγική αδεία είναι η εξουσιοδότηση που παρέχεται σε δασκάλους επιτρέποντάς τους να χρησιμοποιήσουν απαγορευτικά κατά τα άλλα μέσα, προκειμένου να επιτύχουν παιδαγωγικούς σκοπούς.Έτσι η παιδαγωγική αδεία είναι ανάλογη της ποιητικής αδείας ή γενικώτερα της καλλιτεχνικής αδείας. Θα διαπιστωθεί ότι η παιδαγωγική αδεία διεχέεται σε όλη την κολλεγιακή διδασκαλία. Η παρούσα εργασία προτείνει την απόδοση έμφασης σε δύο θέματα , στα πλαίσια της σειράς μαθημάτων κριτικής σκέψης: κατά πρώτον στην φύση και την χρησιμότητα της κριτικής σκέψης· κατά δεύτερον,στην φύση και την διεισδυτικότητα της ποιτικής αδείας.Η αντίληψη της παιδαγωγικής αδείας θέτει σε επαγρύπνηση τον μαθητή για την ανάγκη της κριτικής σκέψης. Η κριτική σκέψη δεν είναι απαραιτήτως αρνητική ή απορριπτική· δεν παράγει απαραιτήτως κριτκή, με οποιαδήποτε από τις σημασίες που μπορεί να έχει αυτή η λέξη· και επιπλέον, δεν κατευθύνεται αναγκαστικά προς την επίλυση μιάς κρίσιμης κατάστασης, μιάς κρίσης. Η κριτική σκέψη δεν είναι 'ανεύρευση σφάλματος', όπως επίσης δεν είναι 'διαχέριση κρίσης'. Η λέξη 'κριτική' στην έκφραση 'κριτική σκέψη' χρησιμοποιείται με έναν μάλλον ειδικό τρόπο· η ετυμολογία της είναι διδακτική. Με την σημασία που της αρμόζει πιο πολύ, η λέξη 'κριτική' συνδέεται με το Λατινικό ουσιαστικό sieve (κρησάρα, στμ.), που συγγενεύει με το ρήμα κοσκινίζω (ξεχωρίζω σχολαστικά(μετ.), στμ.)-όπως όταν λέμε κοσκινισμένο αλεύρι, κοσκινισμένη άμμος, κοσκινισμένη απόδειξη. Στις μέρες μας δεν μιλάμε πλέον για κρησάρες· όταν πρέπει να αναφερθούμε σε μία κρησάρα κλίνουμε πιο πολύ στο να χρησιμοποιήσουμε την λέξη 'κόσκινο'. Μπορεί ίσως το συγγενικό ρήμα κρησάρω να είναι το πιο καταλληλο απ' οτιδήποτε άλλο, αλλά ακόμα κι εδώ το ρήμα κοσκινίζω είναι πιο κοινό. Η κριτική σκέψη είναι ορθολογικό κοσκίνισμα ή κρησάρισμα. Η λέξη 'κριτική'συγγενεύει με την λέξη 'κριτήριο', που προέρχεται από την Ελληνική γλώσσα και αναφέρεται σε ελέγχους ή σε πρότυπα που χρησιμοποιούνται σε ελέγχους ή ακόμη και, λιγώτερο κατάλληλα κατά την γνώμη μου, σε μια ποιότητα, σε μια συνθήκη, σε ένα κατηγόρημα ή σε μια ιδιότητα που χρησιμοποιούνται για
In the first part of this paper, a historical survey is given of the attempts to formulate the re... more In the first part of this paper, a historical survey is given of the attempts to formulate the revolutionary changes in natural and social phenomena, from infinitesimal calculus and probabilistic theories until the recent attempts of sociocybernetics and network theories. Completeness and incompleteness theorems are introduced for human groups and automata networks. In the second part, further research on categoriogenesis is examined within ritual conflicts, revealing the creation of new categories and not the rearrangement (as Hegel and Lukasz insisted) of the already existing categorical systems, as is shown from the history of philosophy.
The author examines the interdisciplinary genesis of the concept of the field of interactions, as... more The author examines the interdisciplinary genesis of the concept of the field of interactions, as a continuous legacy of the Victorian era. In natural sciences field theory emerges with the experimentation of Faraday and other physicists on electromagnetic phenomena and the elegant formulations of Maxwell: fields of force are the new foundation of the succeeding theories of all subsequent physical interactions discovered. In social dynamics arrangements the foundation of the parliamentary representation transforms through party system filtering the groups' and social classes' interactions, especially in Mill's contributions. In the computability domain of machinery invention, although Babbage is widely known as the first computer inventor, the author focuses in another option of his contribution, showing that Babbage introduces the connection between software engineering and political economy, in the production of surplus value. In the high culture sphere the concepts of criticism and the modern are examined by Arnold through his search for invariants in the creative-critical activity connection, introducing the 'domain of the modern'. The above interconnections are considered as a forerunner of the modern ritual dynamics of hyper-networks.
A correspondence between the Robbins algebra1 axioms and the three control structures of the Böhm... more A correspondence between the Robbins algebra1 axioms and the three control structures of the Böhm-Jacopini theorem2 is introduced. The associativity axiom of the Robbins algebra is related with the sequence structure of the Böhm-Jacopini theorem, the commutativity axiom with the decision structure, and the Robbins equation with the repetition structure. The author, unlike other approaches3, follows the Knuth objection4 on the non-reductive way of interpreting all control structures as while-loop reductions, something that should be reflected otherwise in a reduction of the three axioms of the Robbins algebra to a single axiom, with further consequences to the well known equivalence5 between the Boole algebra axioms, the Huntington axioms and the Robbins algebra axioms.
Suggested bibliography.
1. McCune, W., Solution of the Robbins Problem, JAR 19(3), 263--276 (1997).
2. Böhm, C., Jacopini, G., Flow Diagrams, Turing Machines and Languages with Only Two Formation Rules. Communications of the ACM , (1966), 9 (5): 366–371.
3. Kozen, D. and Wei-Lung Dustin Tseng, The Böhm–Jacopini Theorem Is False, Propositionally,(2008) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5,133: 177.
4. Donald Knuth (1974). Structured Programming with go to Statements. Computing Surveys 6 (4): 261–301. Roberts, E., Loop Exits and Structured Programming: Reopening the Debate,(1995) ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, (27)1: 268–272. De Millo, Richard A., Space-Time Trade-Offs in Structured Programming: An Improved Combinatorial Embedding Theorem. (1980) Journal of the ACM 27 (1): 123–127.
5. E. V. Huntington, New sets of independent postulates for the algebra of logic, (1933) Trans. AMS 35, 274--304. E. V. Huntington, Boolean algebra: A correction, (1933), Trans. AMS 35, 557--558. Bernd I. Dahn, Robbins Algebras Are Boolean: A Revision of McCune’s Computer-Generated Solution of Robbins Problem, (1998), Journal of Algebra 208, 526-532.
Suggested bibliography.
1. McCune, W., Solution of the Robbins Problem, JAR 19(3), 263--276 (1997).
2. Böhm, C., Jacopini, G., Flow Diagrams, Turing Machines and Languages with Only Two Formation Rules. Communications of the ACM , (1966), 9 (5): 366–371.
3. Kozen, D. and Wei-Lung Dustin Tseng, The Böhm–Jacopini Theorem Is False, Propositionally,(2008) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5,133: 177.
4. Donald Knuth (1974). Structured Programming with go to Statements. Computing Surveys 6 (4): 261–301. Roberts, E., Loop Exits and Structured Programming: Reopening the Debate,(1995) ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, (27)1: 268–272. De Millo, Richard A., Space-Time Trade-Offs in Structured Programming: An Improved Combinatorial Embedding Theorem. (1980) Journal of the ACM 27 (1): 123–127.
5. E. V. Huntington, New sets of independent postulates for the algebra of logic, (1933) Trans. AMS 35, 274--304. E. V. Huntington, Boolean algebra: A correction, (1933), Trans. AMS 35, 557--558. Bernd I. Dahn, Robbins Algebras Are Boolean: A Revision of McCune’s Computer-Generated Solution of Robbins Problem, (1998), Journal of Algebra 208, 526-532.
The problem of the Baconian difference between the collection of information and its handling is ... more The problem of the Baconian difference between the collection of information and its handling is examined within the construction of Bacon’s Histories1: a basic incommensurability is emerging between the collection according to Arts and the classification according to the different Bodies examined. This duality of sorting is passing to the duality concept of the domains of his ontological research, as Bacon is trying to construct an experimental science against any speculative considerations. Thus we are facing a dual ontology of materiality which is based on dual information.
Baconian informatics is examined within the discussion of game theoretic concepts2 and additive versus non-additive probability schemes that have hitherto introduced in Baconian studies. Baconian experimental ontologies are formalized on the distinction between proof-trees and induction-trees and a topology of the evolution of taxonomies is introduced.
Suggested bibliography
1. Bacon, Francis, Instauratio Magna , Parasceve ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem, 1620. Greek translation: Η Μεγάλη Αναμόρφωση, translated with introduction and comments by Thanos Christacopoulos, Stahy editions, Athens 2000.
2. Urbach, Peter, Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Science: An Account and a Reappraisal, Open Court, Illinois, 1987.
3. Sargent, Rose-Mary, Scientific Experiment and Legal Expertise: The Way of Experience in Seventeenth-Century England, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 20,1989, pp19-45.
Gamez, David, From baconian to popperian neuroscience, Neural Systems & Circuits, 2012/2: pp2-5.
Baconian informatics is examined within the discussion of game theoretic concepts2 and additive versus non-additive probability schemes that have hitherto introduced in Baconian studies. Baconian experimental ontologies are formalized on the distinction between proof-trees and induction-trees and a topology of the evolution of taxonomies is introduced.
Suggested bibliography
1. Bacon, Francis, Instauratio Magna , Parasceve ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem, 1620. Greek translation: Η Μεγάλη Αναμόρφωση, translated with introduction and comments by Thanos Christacopoulos, Stahy editions, Athens 2000.
2. Urbach, Peter, Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Science: An Account and a Reappraisal, Open Court, Illinois, 1987.
3. Sargent, Rose-Mary, Scientific Experiment and Legal Expertise: The Way of Experience in Seventeenth-Century England, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 20,1989, pp19-45.
Gamez, David, From baconian to popperian neuroscience, Neural Systems & Circuits, 2012/2: pp2-5.
Odysseys of Mind: Categoriogenesis of Concrete Entities
CHRISTACOPOULOS, ATHANASIOS
Odysseys of Mind: Categoriogenesis of Concrete Entities
e-mail: tchr... more CHRISTACOPOULOS, ATHANASIOS
Odysseys of Mind: Categoriogenesis of Concrete Entities
e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
The author examines the status of dialectics and especially Kosik’s contribution on the connection between wholeness and the empirical, as has been stated from ancient Greek philosophy and on. Dialectics of Concrete is examined as a rigorous attempt of describing the continuous birth of the ‘sciences of the experience of mind ‘,as Kosik states it referring to the structure of Capital.
Consciousness is examined as an activity which develops within the realm of the connection between wholeness and the empirical, creating categorical concepts in an evolutionary way, and enriching them in the process of productive activity. It is examined whether categoriogennesis has a pre-linguistic character, and it’s manifestation in the passage from ancient rituals to experiments, both in natural and in social sciences. Among these rituals, the sacrificial ones play an important role in the creation of the economical categories, although the gift-exchange theory is been considered of secondary importance. Kosik’s critical epistemology is combined with the secularization theorem,1 which considers the existence of an isomorphism between theological and sociological concepts, and the sacrification theorem2 which states an evolutionary isomorphism between theories on sacrifice and philosophies of science. The problem of categoriogennesis3, is not considered as a naïve change of the system of categories (Hegel), but as a synchronous phenomenon of the human transformative activity taking account of Kosik’s dialectical conception of praxis.
1 H. Blumenberg, Die Legitimität der Neuzeit. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1966; Neuausgabe ebd. 1996
2 Th. Christacopoulos, From Sacrifice to Science, Servetus between Joseph de Maistre and Francis Bacon, in Michael Servetus Heartfelt, J. Naya, M. Hillar eds. University Press of America 2011, pp 69-85.
Th. Christacopoulos, The sacrification theorem, in TELOS in Europe, The L’Aquila Conference, The West: Its Legacy and Future, 7-9 September 2012.
3 Th. Christacopoulos, Varieties of sacrifice in states of exception, proceedings of the Revolt and Revolution e-book Conference, Athens, November 2013, Inter-disciplinary net, Oxford.
Odysseys of Mind: Categoriogenesis of Concrete Entities
e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
The author examines the status of dialectics and especially Kosik’s contribution on the connection between wholeness and the empirical, as has been stated from ancient Greek philosophy and on. Dialectics of Concrete is examined as a rigorous attempt of describing the continuous birth of the ‘sciences of the experience of mind ‘,as Kosik states it referring to the structure of Capital.
Consciousness is examined as an activity which develops within the realm of the connection between wholeness and the empirical, creating categorical concepts in an evolutionary way, and enriching them in the process of productive activity. It is examined whether categoriogennesis has a pre-linguistic character, and it’s manifestation in the passage from ancient rituals to experiments, both in natural and in social sciences. Among these rituals, the sacrificial ones play an important role in the creation of the economical categories, although the gift-exchange theory is been considered of secondary importance. Kosik’s critical epistemology is combined with the secularization theorem,1 which considers the existence of an isomorphism between theological and sociological concepts, and the sacrification theorem2 which states an evolutionary isomorphism between theories on sacrifice and philosophies of science. The problem of categoriogennesis3, is not considered as a naïve change of the system of categories (Hegel), but as a synchronous phenomenon of the human transformative activity taking account of Kosik’s dialectical conception of praxis.
1 H. Blumenberg, Die Legitimität der Neuzeit. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1966; Neuausgabe ebd. 1996
2 Th. Christacopoulos, From Sacrifice to Science, Servetus between Joseph de Maistre and Francis Bacon, in Michael Servetus Heartfelt, J. Naya, M. Hillar eds. University Press of America 2011, pp 69-85.
Th. Christacopoulos, The sacrification theorem, in TELOS in Europe, The L’Aquila Conference, The West: Its Legacy and Future, 7-9 September 2012.
3 Th. Christacopoulos, Varieties of sacrifice in states of exception, proceedings of the Revolt and Revolution e-book Conference, Athens, November 2013, Inter-disciplinary net, Oxford.