Volume 43 (1988), 5

In the paper philosophical and methodological problems ef the relationship of technology and nature are analyzed above all in the concept of biotechnosphere as the complex of mutual penetration of bio- and technosphere ,in the nature of processes which take place in these regions, and in the evolutionary alternatives of nature and civilization on our planet, which… Read more

The author’s aim is to take a philosophical stand to the topical problem of constituting ecology by analyzing theorization and ecologization of science where a particularly discussed question of forming ecology from bioecology to various ecological approaches of the present comes up.

The problem of qualitative changes in the immanent development of ecology… Read more

The paper deals with three problems. The treatment of the first problem states that traditional philosophical reflection of technology has been dedicated to the abiotic branch of the development of technology and that contemporary interest in the biotic branch, e. g. in modern biotechnology, is connected with negative ecological effects of the generally widespread… Read more

In the contribution the ecological problem is analyzed in the context of the contemporary social advancement, the stress is laid on the social aspect and on close connection of social-ecological questions with the process of reconstruction. The author points at the global and systemic character of the ecological problem and he criticizes a narrow economic… Read more

The author defines the environment in relation to the changing geospace of our planet and in relation to the changing biosphere. A new situation appeared due to the rapidly growing numbers of the population and the extention of economic activities, backed by highly entropie technology produced discrepancy between the inherited biosphere and the created… Read more

In the paper the attempt is made to analyze briefly the socialist way of life whereby it is pointed out that man (society) is the subject of solving contemporary problems of mankind and that he must preserve the biosphere and keep in mind the old truth that man takes the means of his existence from nature, he himself is, however, its component.

When… Read more