Abstract
The article discusses creativity as an ontological principle as it is presented in scientific-philosophical attitudes of a Nobel Prize winner for chemistry Ilya Prigogine and Werner Heisenberg’s pupil and a former director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics Hans-Peter Dürr. These attitudes are assessed in the light of Heideggerian notions of Being, subiectum, ousia and time and thus they themselves shed light on the potentiality of Heideggerian mode of thinking on the conception of the creative in the postmodern society and science. Bergsonian notion of creativity is also invoked. It is presented as a philosophical basis of the postmodern techno-scientific creativity and is discussed in terms of Heideggerian ecstatic temporality. The juxtaposition of the notions presented by Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger provides the clue to compare and assess the science-based attitudes of Prigogine and Dürr.
Highlights
Creativity has often been related to will as well as opposed to mechanistic approaches to either the subjective sphere or the objective one
Prigogine sees an obvious analogy between the Galilean-Newtonian deterministic view of the universe and the view Epicurus opposed, on the one hand, and between the Epicurean solution and his own Bergson-inspired time-based chaotic universe, on the other hand
While in the classical deterministic physics there had been no place for indeterminacy and novelty as it had asserted the ontological priority of the abstract geometrical space over the merely-illusory time, Prigogine’s new paradigm claims to bring the end of deterministic certainty as well as to reflect the actual complexity of the world
Summary
The article discusses creativity as an ontological principle as it is presented in scientific-philosophical attitudes of a Nobel Prize winner for chemistry Ilya Prigogine and Werner Heisenberg’s pupil and a former director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics Hans-Peter Dürr. These attitudes are assessed in the light of Heideggerian notions of Being, subiectum, ousia and time and they themselves shed light on the potentiality of Heideggerian mode of thinking on the conception of the creative in the postmodern society and science.
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