Evolutionity – A New Age of Humanity: On the Concept of Human Evolution by Hoene-Wroński
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RF.2018.032Keywords
human evolution, modernity, postmodernity, evolutionity, moral and intellectual development, Hoene-Wroński, new politicsAbstract
In this article, I present the concept of human evolution by Józef Hoene-Wroński. I believe that his ideas are still an unexplored resource which can lead us to the better understanding of the evolution of humanity and of our human destiny. Hoene-Wroński has boldly challenged the deterministic picture of the world emerging from modern science and has derived human evolution from the moral and rational development of human beings. I follow closely his discussion of human evolution and describe its seven stages. Further, I argue that the case of human evolution is strongly supported by new scientific theories, especially by quantum theory and the novel perspectives that it opens for humankind. I end my article with the conclusion that the insights on human evolution derived from the Hoene-Wroński’s writings and from new scientific theories can guide us to the new politics based on the awareness of true human identity – the politics, which can overcome old divisions among humankind and conflicts derived from them. Ultimately, they can initiate evolutionity – the new evolutionary epoch, which will replace modernity and postmodernity.
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