Empirische steun vanuit de recente bevindingen der biologische vakwetenschap voor de structuurtheorie der Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee

Abstract

Human everyday naive experience of this temporary reality has given rise to the formulation of concepts like ‘individuality’, ‘continuity/discontinuity’, ‘constancy’, ‘change’, ‘universality’ and ‘specificity/typicalness’. These all are concepts that play a major role not merely within philosophy, but also within theoretical biology. Neo-Darwinism, due to its monistic character, tries to eradicate the limits of these concepts, and in that way it tries to reduce that which makes up the meaning of those concepts, i.e. the ideas that lie at the foundation of them and make them possible, in a materialistic, that is physicalistic way. The Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea (abbreviated in this article to: ‘W.d.W.’), however, is in a position to do justice to those concepts and to the abovementioned naievely experienced ideas that lie at the bottom of them, because of its antireductionistic approach that comes with its so-called principle of spheresovereignity, and thanks to its anti-substantialistic, heteronomic nature. That’s why this article contains a, if necessary extensive, but always general introduction to the doctrine of the modalities and the ‘typology of structures’ of this philosophical system.
I make the case that this so-called ‘transcendental approach’ of creation by the W.d.W., that is displayed by its important distinction between a formal side and a factual side of created reality, already a priori is sufficient to rule out success for a materialistic, that is a physicalistic reduction of the pluriform creation, regardless of empirical biological data. But it is also pointed out, that the enormous developments within biological subdisciplines, such as molecular genetics and cell biology, that have started with the discovery of the DNA dubble helix structure in the fifties of the twentieth century, have resulted in discoveries that by no means embarrass the approach to plants and animals of the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, but constitute in every respect a problem for Neo-Darwinism.