ZNANSTVENO ODGONETANJE ŽIVOTA: AUTOPOIESIS I POVRATNE PETLJE
THE SCIENTIFIC DECIPHERING OF LIFE: AUTOPOIESIS AND FEEDBACK LOOPS

Summary/Abstract: In the article some arguments for an affirmative answer to the question whether science can come close to understanding the nature of life are analysed. Commencing from the fact that life in late modernity (and not only there) occurs in the shadow of different threats, the author finds that in the centre of all this uneasiness stands the fear for life itself (in the individual but also in a derived, more general sense). Considering the philosophical (and theological) precepts on this "issue", the author also establishes a simple truth – that fear can truly be overcome only as the awakening of love for life. Activating biophilia could no doubt provide significant support to the well-known concept of "sustainable development". However, the love of life could also become – although in a utopian perspective – a "gravitational centre" of an "improved", axiologically and ethically sensitised (post)modernity.

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