Universology
(gr. "universe"+ logos, meaning "science", literally means "a science
about the Universe") – an interdisciplinary study of cause and system of
world order, which studies the universal regularities of phenomena and
processes involved therein. It also includes a systemic way of logical
thinking as a necessary element of human evolution.
Universology
is, quite simply, a synthesis of human achievements in different areas
of various cultures, actively evolving since the late 20th century,
contributing to sciences as well as to forming new theoretical and
practical disciplines.
Universology,
based on relativism and orienting toward human development prospects,
is integrally interrelated to philosophy, science and sociology.
Universology,
as an interdisciplinary synthesis of science and the global human
cultural heritage, has contributed to forming new theoretical and
practical fields:
causal
systemology, gnoseological relativism, cardinal psychology,
psycho-systemology, social systemology, a system of continuous
education, integral and cardinal training.
Popularization of Universology was the life's work of Stephen Pearl Andrews, a 19th century intellectual.
In
1872, Andrews published the work "The Basic Outline of Universology: An
Introduction to the Newly Discovered Science of the Universe; It's
Elementary Principles and the First Stages of their Development in the
Special Sciences.”
The
term "Universology” was also popularized by Edward Osborne Wilson (born
on June 10, 1929).His works sought to conceptualize and unite all
knowledge through an explanation of its apparent wholeness, including
his project The Encyclopedia of Life.
In
recent times, Mamori Mohri, Japan's first astronaut and Director of
Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, has
popularized and expanded on Universology.
For
Mohri, the universological worldview was an epiphany, which emerged
after seeing the planet from space on two missions in the 1990s, and he
has become the chief proponent of Universology today. "Everything in
this universe is part of an uninterrupted sequence of events", according
to Mohri.
The issue of the integrity of the Universe has been discussed by various sciences.
Ilya
Romanovich Prigogine (born on January 25, 1917) was a Belgian and
American physicist and chemist who was born in Russia and became a Nobel
Prize laureate in chemistry. In the book "Order Out of Chaos: Man's New
Dialogue With Nature”, which he co-wrote with Isabelle Stengers,
another professor at Prigogine's group in the University of Brussels,
Prigogine states:
"Altogether,
we tend to accept the idea propelled by Dialectical Materialism,
regarding the necessity of overcoming the antithesis of humane,
historical realm and the material world, perceived as atemporal. We do
believe, that the setting rapprochement of these opposites will have to
be enhanced, as there will be new approaches which will outline the
internally evolving Universe, which we are part of." A central aspect of
the ways of "outlining the internally evolving Universe", that is what
Universology is all about.
Sergey
Vladimirovitch Galkin, lecturer in the department of Applied
Mathematics of the N.E. Bauman State Technical University in Moscow,
stated in his book "Approaching Integral Knowledge":
"We
are facing a new universal, integral science, parts of which we are
building up now. As a first approximation, this science may be called
"Universology”.
V.
Ebeling, A. Angel, and R. Faystel, in their book "The Physical Ground
of Evolution. Synergistic Approach", have been rigorously validated,
which they based on general synergistic principles; they also studied
various forms and stages of the evolution of the "Universum”.
The issue of universal regularities of the evolution of the Universe has been of interest to many scholars.
Lately,
Universology has been rapidly developing due to the contribution of
V.A. Polyakov - the author of numerous books in the fields of causal
systemology, universal management methodology, and business
administration psychology.He also pioneered in applying effective
methods of systemic disease prevention, psychosystemology, a system of
continuous education, group strategy, and the self-government of
society.
V.A.
Polyakov is the creator and the leader of the International Science
School of Universology, consisting of hundreds of teams that develop and
apply Universology as a philosophical school, and provide a methodology
for a healthy lifestyle.
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